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...These debates about how many cases there are, are very important...a very widespread disease will prompt people to take many precautions,” he said. “If they are less worried, they will take fewer precautionary steps that they might not have done...
...excitement has nothing to do with any natural emotional loyalty to educational institutions or their sports teams. I’ll be the first to admit that I simply don’t identify with whatever feelings prompt my friends at other schools to post rallying cries such as "Go Cats! F**k ’em up!" on their Facebook statuses. I cannot claim more than a moderate interest in football as a sport, and I probably won’t fall apart if Harvard doesn’t win the Ivy League championship. But the great thing about...
...enthusiastic about the potential for health-related nudges to help "bend the cost curve," the soaring costs of care that are bankrupting the Treasury. For example, Medicare and Medicaid patients who don't select their insurance plans could be defaulted into low-cost options, and computerized medical records could prompt doctors to prescribe generic drugs, while still allowing them to select name brands instead. The thinking is that they usually won't, and they usually shouldn...
...resolve will hold up in the face of expected troop losses and further bombing attacks across the northwest and in major cities; security is being beefed up outside government buildings, Western targets and civilian areas. There is also fear that moving against the militants in one area may simply prompt them to relocate to other regions. Nor does the army have the luxury of fighting on a single front: battles continue in pockets in Swat and across the tribal areas...
...option but to play the diplomatic game, because its "or else" options are so limited. Russia and China remain deeply skeptical of the case for sanctions and are unlikely to approve measures with significant bite. What's more, Israeli and American hawks have long argued that no sanctions will prompt a regime that has invested so much in developing a nuclear program to simply reverse course; rather, they see the choices as boiling down to one between military strikes and accepting a nuclear-armed Iran. But military strikes are opposed by the Pentagon for two reasons: even in the best...