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...third Thursday in March, medical schools across the country held gatherings to unveil the computer's results. Some schools waited for the designated hour, then unleashed the students to retrieve the envelopes with their results and braced for a stampede. Others, including Vanderbilt University, called students at random to the front of a lecture hall. On the way, each students dropped a dollar bill into a fishbowl as compensation for the suffering that the last person was to endure while waiting. One by one, they received and opened their envelopes, leaned into a microphone, and announced the result to classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...good news: you can never be complacent about a virus as fond of mutating as influenza is. We're always just a few random genetic shifts away from a possible pandemic. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last year documented for the first time that one of the many viral components that make up a common flu strain, known as H1--which also happens to be a descendant of the same virus that fueled the pandemic of 1918--was resistant to the popular antiviral drug oseltamivir, a.k.a. Tamiflu. In the flu season--October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flu Strain Goes Kerflooey | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...RANDOM ASIDE: One Endowment that Will Never Shrink (The University of Chuck Norris...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

message to some random dude, which never results in anything but me falling...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It: Textual Harrassment | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...hundred percent of the students who had written about being in charge rolled the dice themselves, compared with only 58% of the students who had written about someone else having power over them. Sixty-nine percent of the control group chose to roll. There may be nothing quite as random as a roll of the dice, but the students on a power high appeared to believe they could do it better. (Read "Does Power Corrupt? Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powerful People Overestimate Themselves | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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