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...orthopedic and cardiac surgeries--which account for more than half the profits of many hospitals--and most lack costly emergency rooms. As these and other doctor-owned facilities spread and tensions soar, hospitals are finding it harder to get specialists on call in their ERs, reports HSC researcher Dr. Robert Berenson in a study published on the Web this week by Health Affairs...
...committee’s list. While the rest of the list remains undisclosed, several other candidates mentioned by alumni and academics include 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner and Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67, and Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton...
...Robert Gates, who begins his confirmation hearing Tuesday as President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, is expected to have little trouble winning Senate approval. Even Democrats who have had issues with Gates in the past are anxious to begin course corrections in the Pentagon's troubled Iraq war strategy. And means the hearings will most likely be a far cry from the last ones Gates faced - when George Herbert Walker Bush picked Gates to be CIA director...
...your father [artist Robert De Niro Sr.] was a big influence on your life...
...DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Missouri. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin-later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)-also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. Numbers 1 in 5 Number of British adults who regularly throw coins into wishing wells and fountains $5.9 million Amount they throw into wells every year...