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...signed up to edit the site have praised Medpedia for its potential to bridge the gap between doctors and patients. Michael N. Strong, a post-doctoral fellow at HMS, said the Web site’s distinguishing feature is the option to view articles in either “plain English” or “clinical” terms. “I originally signed up out of curiosity, and I think the goals they’ve set up are excellent goals,” he said. HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine Graham T. McMahon said that...
...Secondhand stores that carry big-ticket items other than clothing are seeing increases in sales as well. Boomerang’s in Jamaica Plain, a nonprofit owned and operated by Aids Action Committee, has been doing brisk business in furniture...
Frustrated by the endless variety of squash? Bothered by a dining service seemingly bent on destruction of the avian class? Or just plain flabbergasted at how all these people can get by without dessert forks? Welcome to Umami Magazine, Harvard’s newest guide to the world of finer dining...
...surprisingly, the boycott has apparently angered Chinese authorities, who sources in exile allege have been engaged in a security crackdown code named Strike Hard since Jan. 18 in an attempt to head off trouble. "They have conducted house-to-house searches. They have military in plain clothes everywhere and snipers on the roofs," says Tsewang Rigzin, president of the Tibetan Youth Congress based in Dharamsala, India. According to one nomadic herdsman I meet at the Longwu monastery in Tongren, one of the most important outside the Tibet Autonomous Region, the attempt by the authorities to force celebrations - and the Tibetan...
...CFTC, is that hard economic times are stripping away fraudsters' camouflage. And, of course, Bernard Madoff's stunner, a $50 billion Ponzi that wiped away billions of dollars from thousands of duped investors around the world, has brought global attention to Ponzi capers, encouraging both whistle-blowers and just plain nervous investors to come forward, he said. (See pictures of Madoff...