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...spite of the dire need for family physicians throughout the United States, however, American medical students continue to shy away from primary care as a career. Since 1997, the number of medical students entering family medicine residencies has fallen by 50 percent. This year, a two percent increase in family medicine residents was considered by the American Association of Family Physicians to be a triumph. Foreign medical students now fill most of the spaces in family care residencies; this summer, 56 percent of entering primary care residents will be foreign medical students...
...experience will be different from the one your family members had, you also know that it won’t be radically different. It’s not as though you’re applying to Brown.In fact, many legacies who apply to Harvard apply not because but in spite of the fact that their parents went here. Harvard has so many opportunities that it can encompass students who are very different from their alumni parents. To coin a metaphor, Harvard is like an expensive restaurant. You and your parents may both eat there, but you won?...
...students who got into Harvard, have actually attended, and will be graduating. These reminders may signify something to our parents, but our memories ought to mean far more. Our best keepsakes come, free of charge, from the dining halls, dorms, classrooms, and clubs where they were formed. And in spite of all the solicitations made for photographs, jewelry, and other items, these recollections remain the most important symbol of graduation day and all that came before it. The University should make that realization too, and take care to limit their commoditization of Commencement. Reva P. Minkoff...
This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs, the Muslim ethnic group that speaks a Turkic language, over religious issues were reported by rights groups...
...evolution of cooperation is one of the big topics in evolutionary biology—how cooperation can evolve in spite of the cost of being generous,” said Pat Barclay, a neurobiology professor at Cornell...