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...Clinics like the Hospital Santa Monica tout cures for all types of cancers, attracting many U.S. patients diagnosed with what they believe is a death sentence. How can patients be sure the money they?re often asked to pay up front will ensure a cure? No guarantees are given. ?It is harder today more than ever for patients to find credible information because none exists,? says medical writer Peter Chowka, who has chronicled cancer treatments in the U.S. and the alternative medical facilities of Mexico. ?In 1991 legislation was passed to set up an office within the National Institutes...
Notes from a now-missing typed memorandum that once accompanied the book revealed that the binding’s skin comes from “the back of the unclaimed body of a woman patient in a French mental hospital who died suddenly of apoplexy...
Students anxious to receive their grades will have to remain patient until Feb. 6. Beginning with this past fall semester, the Office of the Registrar has decided to withhold all students’ records until the office has uploaded every grade and vetted them for accuracy. But while students restlessly await their grades, freshman advisers will have access to their advisees’ grades immediately after they are uploaded, according to an e-mail from the Registrar obtained by The Crimson. The Crimson was not able to confirm if upperclassmen advisors were also granted the same advance access. Freshman advisors...
...With four of the five top nominees (all but Munich) claiming the tag "indie productions," this is an Oscar year more dominated by non-blockbusters than any since 1997, when four "indie" nominees were The English Patient (the ultimate winner), Fargo, Secrets & Lies and Shine. (The fifth film was the Tom Cruise comedy Jerry Maguire...
...anybody in your company so patient, so persistent, so willing to sit in interminable negotiations for hour upon hour that he would be worthy of the nickname Iron Ass? If so, send him to China; it may be where he belongs. That is one of the enormous number of practical lessons large and small to be gleaned from James McGregor's new book, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. McGregor is a rare breed: an extraordinarily capable journalist--he was the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau chief from...