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...ENHANCE was never designed to provide outcomes, meaning the prevention of major adverse cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke," says Davies. "This was an interesting scientific exercise to look at the impact of the drug on plaque, which is itself a surrogate end point for these events...
Peace in the Middle East has proved to be unusually elusive. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the region has been devastated by three major wars and numerous insurgencies on what are today Palestinian territories known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The efforts of many U.S. presidents and several supposed breakthroughs have proved fruitless. This millennium, the prospects for peace have seemed unusually bleak: More than a thousand Israelis have been killed as a direct result of the terrorist tactics employed by Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian groups since 2000, while Israeli counterattacks and military operations...
...that there is a strike, it will involve severe repercussions for transit systems throughout the Northeast, and any resolution will almost certainly require a government bailout. Such a scenario would highlight two striking problems with the current state of Amtrak—namely, the inefficiency of its control over major commuter rail stations and its inability to become financially self-sufficient...
First, the victims of an Amtrak strike are more likely to be commuter rail passengers than Amtrak ones. Today, ownership and operational control of major stations are in the hands of Amtrak, despite the fact that local transportation authorities generally account for many more passengers. This holds true for South Station in Boston and Pennsylvania Station in New York. Rather than permit the Amtrak to cripple these daily commuters, operational control of big stations should be transferred from Amtrak to local transportation authorities. Why should an Amtrak strike shut down all of South Station, victimizing travelers in Massachusetts Bay Transportation...
Faust’s remarks in BusinessWeek, one of the first significant gaffes of her presidency, have not elicited major criticism from Harvard faculty members, many of whom voiced strong objections to controversial comments made by her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers...