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...specialists and other experts were transplanted from Japan for several years to make sure the new plant fully absorbed the Toyota way. That kind of hand-holding may still be possible, but it isn't as easy. How can that be fixed? Says Spear: "The big deal is this question, Does an organization know how to hear and respond to weak signals, which are the problems, or does it have to hear strong signals? You have to listen to weak signals. By the time you get to strong signals, it's too late...
...once antenatal depression is diagnosed, the question of whether to treat it with drugs is a difficult one. There is very little safety data on the use of the vast majority of federally approved drugs, including antidepressants, during pregnancy. Of the dozen or so prescription medications specifically approved for expectant women by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, all are pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for instance, or epidural anesthesia. That means that each year, thousands of pregnant women with common illnesses - from depression to flu or cancer - must decide whether the benefit of medications outweighs the unknown risks...
...increase in question, released on Feb. 1, augments the current budget for Pell Grants by six percent, raising the minimum grant from $5,500 to $5,710. It will also allocate an additional one billion dollars to the National Institutes of Health, constituting a 3.2 percent increase, the largest such increase in eight years. The National Science Foundation, likewise, will see an eight percent growth in the size its budget under Obama’s proposal. These changes will likely make American education available to an even wider group of students, and they therefore deserve praise...
...when the music started again and the crowd dissipated (by now, we’d acquainted ourselves with María, the “sobrina” in question), I felt myself taken back to the years of excruciating junior high dances—as terrified to be asked to dance as I was to end up lingering awkwardly on the fringes of the festivities. Gustavo and María coupled up, while my family and I stood by entranced, exhilarated, and slightly horrified, as if we had just jumped the fence and were now trespassing on someone else?...
...don’t think that science in and of itself shows that there’s no God and science can’t explain why there’s something rather than nothing, if that question makes sense. So one can hold both views and not be guilty of inconsistency I would...