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Only the Nazi Holocaust aimed for the systematic and rapid extermination of an entire race, Katz said. The Holocaust stands out among tragedies not only because of the number of people killed but also because of the reasons for which they were murdered, Katz added...
...that Americans normally buy through mail-order catalogs, which rang up $57 billion in sales last year. Craig Gugel, senior vice president for interactive media for Ted Bates in New York City, compares the present state of online advertising with the early days of cable TV, just before its rapid growth during the mid-1980s. Says Gugel: ``Interactive media is going to explode over the next five to 10 years. Online advertising is out there now, but interactive television is coming next...
Walsworth says the rapid transfer of histechniques from physics to medicine was due inlarge part to his Cambridge location. "Being atHarvard with all the many groups working allows[one] to really find out about a new technologybecause there are so many people with so manycapabilities," he says...
...push for rapid industrialization in many of these developing Asian countries has come at the expense of environmental and health concerns, says project collaborator Joseph J. Harrington, McKay professor of environmental engineering. During a recent tour of China and the Philippines, Harrington says he was able to observe first hand the "incredible air and water pollution problems of these countries...
...rapid growth of managed care has made it harder for many Americans to receive medical help from some of the leading U.S. teaching hospitals. Managed care plans bargaining for the best hospital rates often exclude the top-rated ones. Joining forces against this inexorable economic trend, thirteen leading U.S. cancer centers today announced the formation of an alliance called the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which will conduct joint research and will attempt to enhance patient access to the latest cancer treatments. "Managed care is not anti-quality," says Dr. George Demitri, Chief of Clinical Services for the Dana-Farber Cancer...