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...Crimson for thoughts on the layoffs, quipped that "we're not allowed to have opinions."Harvard College Library oversees the circulation of more than 11 million library items, ranging from maps to films to rare books and manuscripts, and employs over 600 staff members, according to its Web site. The University has combined holdings of over 16 million items in its more than 70 libraries.—Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...news of Michael Jackson's death spread around the world on June 25, the social-networking site Twitter came to a virtual standstill, flooded with visitors tweeting the news. Within moments of the first breaking news reports - indicating that Jackson had suffered cardiac arrest and had been rushed via ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital - both #michaeljackson and cardiac arrest emerged as two of the network's highest-rated "trending topics." As TIME's Michael Scherer notes, nearly three times as many tweets were posted about Michael Jackson on Thursday than about either Iran or swine flu. (See TIME...
...safety and quality of care, and invited all bariatric centers to meet them. Once centers met the standards - which include providing state-of-the-art equipment for operations as well as protocols for following up and measuring the outcomes of the surgeries - the centers were subjected to a site inspection. Upon passing, they earned certification as an ASMBS Center of Excellence...
Urban Dictionary, a Web site that defines slang words and phrases, has a single listing for Domna: “Female gatekeeper of freshman dining halls. She swipes your cards and steals your hearts. Domna - the dominator.” And in 1998, a Crimson article by Amanda P. Fortini '98 included “try to get into Annenberg for lunch, just to see Domna again,” in a list of 100 things to do before graduating...
...helpful. Anesthesiologists sharply reduced mortality rates after their association published evidence-based guidelines; emergency-room nurses have reduced infection rates by following clinically proven to-do lists. After one pharmacy benefits manager sent letters urging customers with high cholesterol to check out the evidence-based Consumer Reports site Bestbuydrugs.org, 4.3% switched to cheaper but equally effective drugs, for savings of $12 million. Similarly, when doctors and patients are fully educated about the costs and benefits of various treatment options for prostate cancer, surgery rates drop by half...