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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wendell Potter may be the ideal whistle-blower. The former head of corporate communications for health-insurance giant Cigna, Potter turned against his old colleagues in June to testify before a congressional committee about what he viewed as the health-insurance industry's "duplicitous" behavior in the current health-reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Health-Care Whistle-Blower | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

In fact, most healthy people have some version of the three new genes. But their presence alone does not necessarily translate to an elevated risk of Alzheimer's. Each of the genes comes in different forms, or variants, that confer different levels of risk - some variants actually protect against Alzheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough Discoveries of Alzheimer's Genes | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

The undergraduate culture’s emphasis on extracurriculars allows certain students to work toward this goal, since many feel strongly about the organizations they run and exert endless energy in attempts to motivate their peers. Yet, on a campus where the majority of organizing occurs via e-mail lists...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Speak Your Mind | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Modern-day telethons have been distilled down to shorter, albeit star-studded, benefit concerts to respond to specific catastrophes - 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, Australian bushfires - but none have had as lasting an effect as the MDA telethons, which have raised more than $1 billion to date. And if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telethons | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Whether you're in Gen Ed or the Core, chances are there aren't enough classes to choose from, even though the subject matter is still pretty specific.  So, happy shopping.

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Cores Flowing Out the Doors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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