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That's certainly good news. Indeed, the best indicator of progress is a declining death rate. But while the falling incidence rate suggests successful efforts at prevention, the real reasons behind the trend are not as clear-cut. Decreasing cancer rates may reflect a real reduction in cancer; they may also be a result of more frequent and effective screening, which can catch and cure pre-cancer, or they may reflect less frequent use of screens overall...
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...opportunity head-on. Among other measures, he has promised to increase education funding, invest in job-creation programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and raise the minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit. While these campaign pledges may be transformed or scaled back in the face of wider recession, they reflect Obama’s understanding of the problems that disproportionately affect minorities, and his desire to solve them...
...necessary to create an international financial regulatory body similar to the World Trade Organization, Ferguson said. He added that financial crises occur infrequently enough for regulators and investors to blissfully ignore the warning signs that can lead to very real economic pain. Arguing that economic systems reflect human nature, Ferguson said that economists’ over-reliance on mathematical models results in a failure to account for the fear, euphoria, and panic that often drive markets. Combining his expertise in history and economics, Ferguson traced the historical development of the modern financial system. “He bridges two disciplines...
...Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that each kindergarten class reflect the demographics of the entire incoming student population—which is determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director of the Cambridge Schools public information office, explained the program’s former standard by giving the example that...