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...right, there we go." With those words and a swish of his pen, President Barack Obama reversed one of the most controversial Executive Orders in recent history. In front of the country's leading scientific minds, including Dr. Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, and Dr. Harold Varmus, former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a science adviser to the Administration, Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research put in place by then President George W. Bush in 2001. Obama's new Executive Order allows...
...takes to the pages of The New Republic this week to review a new book by James M. McPherson, the "dean of Civil War historians," she says. (A reassuring description. If she is going to take her hand off the the University's helm to pick up a pen, at least we know she can't do it without thinking about deans...
...nine years from the night I first sat in a hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience. None of which I have found in a machine...
...both like working out of Harvard?JW: I think both of us feel all the intellectual benefits of academia and also the risks to the kinds of non-academic lives that we decided upon years ago. For me, this primarily involved the romance of trying to live by the pen, trying to make a salary from writing words. Obviously academics do that in a different way—but I never want to lose that primary business of essentially being a journalist, a word I’m happy and proud to use in my case.6. FM: You (CM) were...
...What if someone tells you that you're being let go? What do you do and say at that awful moment? Keep your mouth shut. Keep your hand away from the pen. Sign nothing. Keep your thoughts to yourself. Ask questions. At the risk of sounding adversarial - and I don't like to do that because I'm a huge booster of the HR profession - these people have a script. HR and the layoff managers are war-gamed against a script because they need to protect themselves legally. If you only ask questions, in a really calm...