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...paperwork? It's just a waste of time.' We had 20% in our surveys [of doctors who adopted the checklist in a study] that still felt it was a pain, a waste of time; they didn't want to use it. Of course, we asked them a follow-up question: If they were having an operation, would they want the checklist? And 94% of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...design in question read "'I think of all of Harvard men as sissies.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald," on the front, and "We Agree. The Game 2009" on the back. The characters in This Side of Paradise, from which the quotation was taken, were discussing the merits of Princeton, where Fitzergerald himself was an alum...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Saga of the Sissy Shirt | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...Augusto de Castro Neves, a political analyst in the capital, Brasília. "He could still be President in 2014 or have another political position. I think the intention with the film is almost to provoke the opposition. Lula is so popular that no one is going to question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula Onscreen: Brazil's President as Superhero | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

DeKosky admits that the study has its limitations - the subjects were more than 70 years old, and it's not clear whether ginkgo's effect on the brain may be more profound if introduced earlier. Then there is the question of exactly how ginkgo is acting on the body; if the compound works by improving circulation not just in the brain but throughout the body, for example, then this study may not have been refined enough to pick up those subtle, more indirect effects. "What we would really like to see is additional research," says Douglas MacKay, vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...opponent early next year. After last week's Rasmussen poll, Rubio declared that as a result of "our campaign's growing momentum, voters are starting to realize that there are vast differences between me and Charlie Crist on a number of important issues." But Crist ads will question that assertion - as well as Rubio's record on matters like immigration reform and cap-and-trade policies to limit companies' greenhouse-gas emissions, issues where Rubio, while Florida's House Speaker, didn't exactly follow the Rush Limbaugh path. (He has blasted Crist for supporting cap-and-trade, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Crist Survive a Right-Wing Uprising in Florida? | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

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