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...MD/MBA program must complete separate applications for the medical and business components. The program encourages students to practice medicine first-hand upon graduation before moving into the higher echelons of management. “One of the keys of this program is to make sure that people do retain the clinical portion of their education,” said David K. Lee ’04, a one-time Leverett biochemistry concentrator who is now in his second year at the Medical School and has enrolled in the joint track. Lee said he hopes to become a practicing oncologist before...
...intimidate students and act as a “turn-off.” However, given that it attracts a weekly turnout of about 30 of the same students—mostly freshmen—the HPU’s current format needs to do more to stir and retain interest. A greater emphasis on intellectual debate would not detract, but rather inspire and bring in a wider range of students...
...best pieces are made from recycled bottles. Los Angeles design studio Artecnica has introduced tranSglass, an environmentally conscious line of glassware that has landed in MOMA's tabletop collection. London-based artisans Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden have molded and handcrafted the hard, sharp, clean forms that retain the original colors of the shards fished from the Dumpster...
...says Ibrahim Diabira, 55, a relative of Waly, who works in Paris as a building cleaner and helps run the village association in the French capital. Elsewhere, host nations have created temporary legal work programs, in which migrants earn legal wages with benefits, before returning home. That way, migrants retain close links to their countries while developing skills abroad. "When they go back, they will take augmented skills, savings and networks," says Kapur. (He himself left his native India 22 years ago and settled in the U.S.) In Paris, Waly is planning to return home in January...
...foreigners have become union members. "I think that [school officials] did not seek out American teachers," says Marrietta English, who heads the Baltimore Teachers Union. "The problem the urban teachers have is retention. Last year we were losing 40 teachers a month. No one is looking at ways to retain the teachers we hire. They don't offer the teachers the support they need, and they don't treat them like professionals...