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...Business Can Endanger Your Health, he argues that so many medical experts accept money from pharmaceutical firms, it is nearly impossible at times to determine when advice is truly independent. Kassirer lays out the extent of the largesse--all of it legal--that drug companies lavish on doctors, from ski vacations to thousands of dollars in consulting fees in return for little or no true consulting. He believes that disclosing conflicts of interest is not enough. "Even if you find out what the conflicts are, you don't know how to interpret them," he says. As for the author...
...Levenson-Falk ’08 ran three-fourths of a lap around the Yard with only a ski mask and shoes...
Daniel T. Gilbert understands disappointment. He understands when a Bartley’s hamburger fails to fulfill your innermost desires, and when your new orange ski jacket just doesn’t cut it. Gilbert has heard it all a thousand times before. Really. That’s because Gilbert, the recent subject of a New York Times Magazine profile entitled “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness,” has spent the last decade studying disappointment. The Psych 1 prof took some time this week to bash Ouija boards, lament his lack of groupies and educate...
...wires, McBurney melds the three stories into a meditation on anxiety and loss amid the placid routines of life in urban Japan. The kitchen salesman's elephant fixation ruins a potential romance. The larcenous couple learn they don't really know each other ("What was she doing with ski masks?" asks the exasperated husband. "We've never gone skiing.") The sleepless housewife realizes she despises her well-ordered life and runs off to a potential date with the Big Sleep-death. Things taken for granted suddenly seem out of place, and cause becomes separated from effect. "Our world has become...
...chorus of scripted messages emerged like a round from the six tables erected in the ski resort’s empty parking...