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...residents actually do the surgery - after all, when the senior residents graduate, they will be in charge themselves somewhere else. When I trained in the mid-1980s, there were always plenty of residents and fellows vying to "do something" at every case; standing room only was the rule. Having lots of assistants on hand can smooth a case out - if they are good. Nowadays, though, surgical-residency programs are much smaller. And even with fewer slots available - many of them, even in good programs, are going empty. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...scientists insist they didn't overdo it with the Windex, just a few spritzes - so we can rule out brain-cell death or intoxication-induced generosity as reasons why those receivers gave back so much of the booty. Rather, Liljenquist says, "a moral awareness was awakened in a clean-smelling environment." (Read "Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking...
...behaved better because they smelled something they liked, rather than something "clean." "It could be simply that a positive smell creates a positive mood, which encourages positive behavior. You cannot conclude it is cleanliness per se," says Brown University psychologist Rachel Herz, author of The Scent of Desire. To rule out the confounding factor of good smells, she says, the study's authors could have added a third room to the experiment scented with recently baked chocolate chip cookies, for example...
...know how it is in the People’s Republic of Cambridge,” Curreri said. “They rule...
...produce chemical weapons for al-Qaeda) in retaliation for the U.S.-embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Rice was an early supporter of Obama, and when he won the election last November, her proximity to the President sent a shock of fear into the small coterie of men who rule Sudan. As some in the Sudanese capital say, in the past 50 years, only the Darfur rebels and Susan Rice have attacked Khartoum. But working from her U.N. office in New York City, Rice has largely been sidelined from the policy debate. (Read "No Moral Clarity in Darfur...