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...important parts of the building. Traditional mosques tend to keep women hidden by walls or curtains. In newer, more progressive buildings, prayer areas for men and women often remain separate - but equal. After much debate, the Cologne mosque committee agreed that women and men should pray in the same room, but with women confined to a balcony. Böhm's design is flexible enough that one day both sexes could end up on the same level. "I'm an architect, not a politician," he says. "But I've included little details - like allowing men and women to come through...
...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...
...neoclassical economics wants government to let us alone to do what we want, behavioral economics leaves room for government action to help us do what we would really want if we were rational agents. Unfortunately, the qualities that have crippled Washington in recent years - inertia, denial, allergy to complexity, preference for short-term gratification over long-term planning - are our own flaws writ large. Members of Congress are people too; they're likely to embrace change only when it's easy, popular and rewarding. Do we really want them trying to change...
...sermon that my return was some big surprise. I tried to give him a look that would get him to scooch over. But he moved his body an inch then looked back to the pulpit.A thousand eyes were watching me, and all he could do was make enough room for a piece of toast? Not many things could have pumped me from that horrible way I felt but this was one of them. So I stepped from the aisle, tried to sit in that sliver, and then whacked the man with my hips until he and all his friends from...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who spoke to the Faculty before the final Gen Ed vote about his concern that students would not have enough room for electives, blamed the administrative upheaval during the curricular review for the number of categories, adding that there was a need for someone to “put limitations on the aggregate and shape it somehow...