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...point: Bagnoli says he received a call on May 1 from a parent who reported that his daughter had gotten into Stanford, where her financial aid would cover four years of tuition, room, board and fees as well as a travel stipend. "They didn't know how they could pass up the opportunity," Bagnoli notes. (See how to learn from Ivy League professors for free...
Barreling down Balboa Avenue, belching diesel fumes as they bully fancy European sports cars out of the way, the second-hand American school buses that pass for Panama City's public transportation system seem like dinosaurs that took a wrong exit off the time-space continuum...
...this "civilized" day and age, FlyBy just doesn't get enough old-fashioned chances to watch people beat the shit out of each other. So obviously we weren't going to pass up an opportunity to see the first boxing exhibition on campus in decades. FlyBy took itself down to the QRAC to see the first half of the Harvard Boxing Club's first exhibition in 30 years—one which will hopefully become the annual tradition it is advertised...
...pain of ending their careers, absolutely must do: 10-page reappointment forms, written exams, blood tests, physicals. Every hospital we work in, every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about crimes we're assumed to have committed and disabilities we must prove we have not developed...
...budget that just passed both houses of Congress has given the prospects for health-care reform this year a big boost. With the inclusion of procedural language that would make it impossible for opponents to filibuster, it will now take a simple majority to pass the Senate, rather than 60 votes, simplifying the political arithmetic considerably...