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More information can make us healthier too, which is why the stimulus poured $1.1 billion into "comparative effectiveness" research. Orszag has reams of charts showing that medical tactics and costs vary wildly across the country, with little regard for what works. He'd like to document best practices - from emergency-room to-do lists that dramatically reduce infections to protocols for when pricey tests and surgeries really help - and then have all medical providers adopt them. This approach has helped American anesthesiologists reduce deaths as well as costs...
...literary magazine published by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), presents raw and powerful first-hand narratives of sexual assault. Through sobering, emotional, and sometimes frustratingly real accounts, the magazine serves as a forum for dialogue about sexual assault, allowing concerned students to voice their opinions regarding the issue. It also acts as a healing outlet for survivors of sexual assault and seeks to increase consciousness about the issue throughout the Harvard campus. The launch party marking the release of the third edition will take place Saturday, April 18, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.This year, the magazine...
...that schools with need-blind admissions policies remain that way. Universities lose more than just individual students when they admit wealthy applicants above equally or more qualified, but less affluent, students. Higher education should not be a business—when schools start evaluating their core priorities in this regard, their intellectual integrity suffers. There is a fine line between keeping a school alive to educate another day and doing long-term damage to its commitment to meritocracy...
...million to terminate its interest rate swap portfolio. The figure represents a stark decrease from the $330 million Harvard would have had to pay at the end of June 30, a figure given in the annual financial report.Even though Molinaro said Princeton has never used interest rate swaps with regard to its debt portfolio because they decided “the incremental risk was not worth the modest savings” of a lower interest rate, Scudder said that such swaps are widely used by institutions seeking to reduce exposure to variable rate bonds.Shore declined to comment yesterday...
...government of New South Wales has established a task force of 75 officers to track the bike gangs. It is also pondering the introduction of new laws to declare illegal membership in or association with particular clubs. "These groups are behaving like wild animals - uncivilized and with no regard for our community. If they behave like this, then we have no choice but to hunt them down and deal with them," an angry New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione, told reporters. Scipione has defended the police record in dealing with gangs. He says that in the past six months...