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...Aylin and his colleagues are keen to test the link further. One problem: tracking admissions for a longer period before and after junior doctors begin work might offer a more reliable sample; extend the monitoring period too far, though, and the two groups soon overlap. Plenty more for researchers to ponder, then - except those on their first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Doctors Be Harmful to Your Health? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Although 75 percent of American businesses offer paid sick leave for employees, a significantly smaller percentage of businesses provide employees paid leave to take care of sick family members or children when schools or daycares close, according to SteelFisher...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Firms Expect H1N1 To Affect Operations | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Employees whose jobs do not offer paid leave to care for sick family and children may face “serious morale problems on how to cope with financial issues,” said Robert J. Blendon, director of the research program and a professor of health policy and political analysis at the School of Public Health...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Firms Expect H1N1 To Affect Operations | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...chairs appear to be expecting company or a conversation, but people are nowhere to be seen. This pervasive loneliness lends depth to the photograph and others like it, rendering them poignant yet haunting.People make rare appearances in Palma’s works, but when they do, they often offer the most striking portrayals of hopelessness and loneliness. In the diptych, “The shadows of his youth,” a young man sits at the head of a table, looking solemnly past the viewer. Across the table and physically in the other panel is a blackened human skull...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Palma Exhibition Fails to Make Cohesive Statement | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services. The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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