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...shortage of primary-care physicians is not likely to improve soon. In a survey of 688 medical students, just 27% chose primary care (pediatrics, internal medicine, family practice) as a career path. Nearly half said they would switch if they were offered incentives -- an increase in salary, for example. Only one-third of U.S. doctors work in primary care, short of the 50% sought by experts...
Adam Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches...
...government remains deaf. The information Superhighway must go no, bulldozing anything in its path. The NSA believes that national security is the highest priority for any country, and even privacy must be sacrificed for its cause...
Political trouble threatens all in its path indiscriminately. Public officials served with subpoenas suffer tarnished reputations no matter the ultimate result -- which is why distinctions should be drawn. Where does Altman...
...path that brought him to us took Handy, 35, through two famous training grounds for American satirists of his generation. In 1987 he began writing for Spy magazine, the acid monthly known for "its witty, savagely elegant deconstructions of the hype, venality and sheer short-fingered vulgarity that marked the past decade." (That quote comes from the Milestones item that Handy wrote last month about Spy's folding after seven years of nipping at the heels of power.) From there he went on to write Weekend Update for Saturday Night Live. That, says Handy, gave him good practice...