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All this aside, a course on the tactics of military victory does not have a place in Harvard’s curriculum any more than a course on corporate accounting or marketing. Courses that arm students for a particular profession, be it managing portfolios or planning sorties, don�...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg and Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Blown out of Proportion | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

Onstage he connected viscerally with audiences. Taking his bows, he spread wide his enormous stevedore arms in a gesture of embrace, often flaunting a trademark white handkerchief that was approximately the size of Rhode Island. As applause cascaded over him, he visibly inhaled it like life-giving oxygen, which it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Now that doctors know the exam works pretty well, maybe more countries will put it to use. When Canada first mandated that doctors pass the communication test for licensure, it was the only country in the world to do so - and the move was seen as controversial. Since then, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Bedside Manners | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

Though drawings featured prominently in Galileo's work, his role as artist and draftsman has until now been little more than a footnote in accounts of his life. The native of Pisa, Italy, born in 1564, would eventually be celebrated (and castigated) for his controversial celestial discoveries, his advocacy for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galileo's Moon View | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

The irony, of course, is that the U.S. has never needed Bartholme more. The health-care system faces a deficit of as many as 1 million RNs by 2020. Yet American nursing programs turned away nearly 150,000 qualified applicants for all degree levels last year--including 38,415 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Become a Nurse, Get a Tan | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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