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...Wrong Prescription," Dr. Scott Haig correctly suggests that digital medical records are no silver bullet for the costly, inefficient U.S. health system, but for the wrong reasons [April 6]. Information technology (IT) improves efficiency with the rules of the game currently in play. If the rules reward treating disease complications but discourage management and prevention, IT will help health-care businesses churn out more complications per hour. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that despite decades of debate, no one has an adequate stake in preventing those costly complications in the first place. Steve Brown, WOODSIDE, CALIF...
With next weekend's Yardfest approaching quickly, the College Events Board (CEB) seems to be receiving much less criticism than usual for its choice of artists--Sara Bareilles and electronic group Ratatat. Cue new advertising efforts: the most notable of which has been the "Ratatat Remix Challenge," intended to reward the creator of the best Sara Bareilles-Ratatat mashup (with what? It's unclear). Has the CEB stumbled upon the next Girl Talk? Read...
...Passover Seders, families retell the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, eat matzo plain and then with a fruit-and-nut concoction called haroseth that symbolizes the bricks and mortar the Jews had to prepare as slaves. Sometimes parents hide a piece of matzo - called the afikoman - and reward children with money or gifts if they find it. But when the eight days of Passover are over, it's back to the world of starchy carbohydrates...
...pattern that has been particularly pronounced in Africa, whose post-independence history has been dominated by Big Men, despots like Mobutu Sese Seko, ruler of Zaire for 32 years, who took the country as personal reward for "liberating" it. But it is also observed around the world. A tide of leftwing revolt in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia left much of the same sour legacy of totalitarianism. In India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah...
...While the Beanpot has no effect on Harvard’s Ivy League title hopes, it does reward its winner with Boston-area supremacy and bragging rights for a year—an intangible prize, yet certainly one that a squad at full strength would unload its most effective weapons to obtain...