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...These days fewer than 40% of American women opt to have mastectomies. That percentage, however, soars in other countries. In Korea more than 50% of patients have mastectomies, mostly because they are afraid of secondary cancers. Frequently, such radical surgery is the only option offered a patient. When Ye Danyang, a 41-year-old editor at Beijing TV, found a tumor in 2002, doctors hinted that her resolve to preserve her breast was to choose beauty over life. And, in most cases, a mastectomy is cheaper. "A lumpectomy requires additional, expensive treatment," Xu, the Beijing surgeon, says bluntly. "Patients believe...
...very own online system of open access, where professors could put their work online at no cost, either on a personal or university Web site. The creation of the open access system, however, would bear little fruit without professor participation. Though the proposed system would be “opt-out,” we encourage all professors to participate in this system, and further, urge Harvard to centralize every article in an organized, online database. The free flow of information and research that would result from more universities taking up similar open access initiatives to Harvard?...
...Part of that inner-Orange rift could stem from Tymoshenko's previous agreement to cede the Speakership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament, to Yushchenko's forces. Now, however, with former Speaker Volodymir Lytvyn's bloc having made it back into parliament, Tymoshenko might co-opt his tiny faction as a makeweight, and give him the speakership as a "balancing" force. However, with their dramatic neck-to-neck racing, Yanukovych still retains a chance to get ahead of Tymoshenko and finish first. In this case, though, "makeweights" of the Lytvyn block and the Communist party who is also...
...open access” whereby the authors could make their work available either on a personal or university Web site for free, according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who serves on the council. Professors would have the option to opt out of the new system, Ryan said. “The problem this is supposed to address is the increasing monopoly that has developed on the part of scholarly journals, who are now making it increasingly difficult for people to access the material they publish,” she said. “Libraries...
...form of a midterm or other assignment, before the five weeks have expired. Students—especially freshmen trying to gauge their aptitude for various subjects at the college level—should have some tangible indication of their status in a course in time for them to opt to drop without penalty. Moreover, the College should change its policy of charging a fee for changing courses between the third and fifth weeks so that there is no economic disincentive, however small, to try a new and challenging course, but also to withdraw from an overly onerous one. Though some...