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In his article, Mr. Chrisman attempts to demonstrate the flaws in the current core curriculum. Perhaps I should consider myself fortunate, for virtually every teaching fellow and professor I have encountered in the core has been excellent, neither "undertrained, undermotivated" or "confused." I have found that the "chronology, content, proportion...
When I graduated from Harvard College, nearly 40 years ago, my classmates and I were required to develop a firm grounding in Western Civilization, as part of the General Education program. Since then, I have been indebted to Harvard for the sense of chronology, context, proportion and priority I gained...
As a result, teaching hospitals treat a large proportion of the indigent, uninsured and homeless. Many of these patients have not had access to preventative care and enter the emergency room when their illnesses have already reached an acute stage.
On the broader safety question, the figures are reassuring. Airline fatalities in the U.S., in proportion to miles flown, have been dropping for decades and lately have stabilized at levels so low that they are difficult even to express as a statistical risk. The National Transportation Safety Board counts 31...
Even more frightening, a significant proportion of the prescriptions are for one of 20 different drugs that older people generally should not be taking at all. According to a study of 6,000 people published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, 23% of Americans ages 65...