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...many ways, these companies are technology's standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an "open" Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers. Facebook, with its gated community of 70 million active users, offers a more controlled experience and, so far at least, wants to keep its users safely within its walls. Apple comes from the old world. Its elegant products cocoon customers from the chaos of the information age, but the Apple experience tends to be highly controlled, with Apple hardware at the end points and Apple software and services...
Another concern is, how much incentive pay is enough. There is no universal standard to determine which measures qualify for bonus pay - or how much - so some doctors end up filling out a lot of paperwork to comply with different insurance plans. The administrative costs often outweigh any financial benefit they see for pursuing improvements. "If health plans want physicians to participate, they'd be much better off collaborating beforehand to set norms," says Hindy Shaman, director of health industries for the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Doctors won't waste their time if they have to fill out 20 different forms...
...January, J. K. Rowling was named Harvard’s Commencement speaker. The choice delighted some students and irritated others, who found her not up to the standard of 2007’s Bill Gates or 1943’s George Marshall. Rowling may well prove to be an inspirational speaker. But she is certainly both an enthusiastic borrower, in the fine tradition of Shakespeare and Milton and other great authors who creatively recycled mythic themes and characters, and also a shameless copyright bully, who has brought charges against one of her biggest fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans...
...amped up about playing in the Beanpot, so we have a history of playing well in that,” Fraser said. “I think that we had just started showing up at practice with the attitude that we were going to start playing to a higher standard of hockey.”Harvard achieved a higher standard of hockey through the rest of the season, notching big wins over its ECAC opponents. The Crimson posted a 6-1 win over Ivy League foe Yale and recorded its biggest win in 15 years with a 11-0 annihilation...
...Harvard’s new financial aid initiative, with its “zero to 10 percent standard,” requires no contribution from those with annual incomes below $60,000; a contribution of up to 10 percent from those with incomes from $60,000 to $120,000; and a contribution of 10 percent from those with incomes from $120,000 to $180,000, assuming assets typical for each income level. Families with incomes above $180,000 and even $200,000 will continue to be eligible for varying amounts of need-based aid. In addition, loans have been eliminated...