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...process of stimulating the economy may, indeed, have no specific goals other than to move GDP back to the positive growth rate in the budget and stimulus bills and the recovery in employment that is laid out by the Office of Management and Budget. That would mean that the approach to salvaging the economy is freewheeling and subject to only the nonspecific measurements of success...
...which renders the press release touting a "revolutionary scientific find that will change everything" absolutely true - as long as by "everything," you mean "whether the branch of the primate family that includes monkeys, apes and humans comes from the suborder strepsirrhinae or the suborder haplorrhinae," according to the PLoS One paper. And by "change," you mean "adds information that may or may not help settle the question, but whose implications won't be known for a long time in any case...
...year resident at the University of Florida who will begin his training in radiology this summer, says more sleep would enable him to better retain everything, "to consolidate some of the learning that happens on an almost daily basis," he explains. But he worries that more mandatory rest could mean missed educational opportunities. "More days off always sounds nice, but it distances us from what is going on in day-to-day patient care. A lot can change in 24 to 48 hours," he says...
Harvard University is a nonprofit, not a business. This is one of the central arguments that we hear professors, politicians, and students make when they advocate for Harvard to be more socially and morally responsible. But does this claim mean anything? Should Harvard act any different as a nonprofit than as a business? The answer is yes—Harvard gains huge financial benefits as a nonprofit, and with these benefits come additional responsibilities toward the community that businesses do not always have...
That doesn't mean there won't be a truth commission, however. "We don't govern by fiat over here," says Axelrod. "If Congress wants to move forward, they will move forward... we are prepared for whatever...