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...Harvard Engineers have raised donations from corporations and received a grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Members of the group say that one obstacle that they have encountered has been trying to obtain information about a rural community more than 1,500 miles away in the Dominican Republic while remaining on campus in Cambridge...
Thousands of new patients have flooded doctors’ waiting rooms in the months since Massachusetts passed a bill requiring that all residents obtain health insurance. Over half of the previously 600,000 uninsured residents have since signed onto health care plans, and the influx of new patients is taxing primary care physicians across the state. The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) warns in their 2007 report that primary care physicians believe that “a workforce shortage is imminent...
...slingin’ crack rock or you got a wicked jumpshot.” If those words of urban desperation don’t convey a political message, then nothing can. Contrary to the commonly held belief that rap is nothing more than an avenue for gangsters to obtain wealth and status, Marcus Reeves provides the necessary reminder in “Somebody Scream!” that hip-hop is much more: a potent political force that releases the latent energies of black poverty, violence, and frustration. Reeves, a film and music critic who has worked for The Source...
...surgical intervention - and subsequently turned down the palliative services and pain-masking medication doctors offered. It was only after her tumors had grown too large and present on her brain that Sébire's determination to beat the disease on her own morphed into her final campaign to obtain legally permitted euthanasia from the same doctors whose treatment she'd originally rebuffed. That has caused considerable concern among observers and ethicists who note that neither the media attention directed to Sébire's distressing appeal to die, nor the public sympathy it generated, appeared aware...
...Reformer's Burden For most other Senators, especially those lacking presidential ambitions, such untoward appearances would not raise much of an eyebrow. On any given day, thousands of lobbyists work their connections on Capitol Hill, hoping to obtain letters on their behalf or legislation in their favor. But for McCain, such questions become an issue of integrity. He is the one, after all, who regularly breaks the Senate's code of silence by alleging corruption by his peers. "Elected officials do act in particular ways in order to assist large soft-money donors," McCain wrote in a sworn statement from...