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...that physicians are reluctant to use e-mail because it isn’t profitable. “Doctors don’t use e-mail because they don’t make money from it. Care for patients in non-emergency situations is poor, and until people get sick of a system that’s not user-friendly, policies won’t change.” According to Catherine M. DesRoches, a senior research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, the infrequent use of e-mail indicated by the survey does not necessarily imply that...
...death; Leung's pursuit of Lau outside a movie theater; and the moment when a taxicab is abruptly flattened, out of the sky, by the falling body of one of the main characters. The remake includes all of these scenes (though the last one loses some of its sick impact when the body simply lands on the street). Indeed, this is a faithful version of IA - just longer, by about a half-film, to flesh out the characters and give the actors more to play with...
...that occur during sexual reproduction, as DNA is copied and recombined. Sometimes long strings of letters are duplicated, creating multiple copies in the offspring. Sometimes they're deleted altogether or even picked up, turned around and reinserted backward. A group led by geneticist Stephen Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has identified 1,576 apparent inversions between the chimp and human genomes; more than half occurred sometime during human evolution...
...like for his birthday and requests a picture of him - were innocuous and "nonchalant" chat. But the boy, a page in the office of Louisiana Representative Rodney Alexander, also a Republican, e-mailed other colleagues saying Foley's messages "freaked me out," and he repeatedly called the photo request "sick...
...curious lack of roughage are putting a damper on the otherwise exquisite, or at least generally non-lethal, Harvard College dining experience. An E. coli outbreak traced to California bagged spinach has caused one known death, is suspected of causing two others, and has made people sick from New Mexico to Maine. No E. coli cases have been reported in Massachusetts. But when dealing with the possibility of a gastrointestinal illness marked by such symptoms as bloody diarrhea, cramping, and, um, death, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) took what HUDS Assistant Director for Marketing Crista Martin called...