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...result. Similarly, France is less at risk than some of its neighbors from the costs of an aging population, partly because of the 2003 pensions reform. These days, it's the health-care system that needs work, as the government seeks to curb spiraling costs without sacrificing a high standard of care. Doctors, nurses, paramedics and many others around the country are up in arms; some are on strike. Inefficient French hospitals aren't closing, in contrast to Germany, where several hundred have shut down. But the government is introducing a rigorous new accounting system that for the first time...
DIED. Walter Pearson, 77, stogie-chomping poker legend credited with inventing the now standard "freeze-out" poker, in which players start with the same amount of money and play until one of them wins all the chips; in Las Vegas. Known as Puggy, he won the World Series of Poker in 1973 and promoted the game with antics like attending tournaments in Viking, cowboy or other chest-beating regalia...
...discussed the impatience that many Taiwanese voters have with President Chen Shui-bian's deliberately provocative stance toward China. I strongly feel that the future of Taiwan depends on economic development. I can support only political leaders who can improve Taiwan's economy and give me a better standard of living. That's what I will be thinking about as we approach the next presidential election in 2008. Song Xiaowen Pingzhen City, Taiwan...
...many different causes,” he said. “This may be one part of the puzzle for one particular kind of depression.” Ardayfio and his advisor, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Kwang-Soo Kim, tested three groups of mice on a standard anxiety-level test. The mice were placed in a darkened chamber, allowed to acclimatize themselves, and were then allowed to explore another brightly lit chamber. Ardayfio and Kim found that, while normal mice readily explored the new area, mice which had received long-term doses of the rodent equivalent of cortisol via drinking...
...Globe reported last March that Harvard undergraduates gave lower ratings to their college experience than students at other elite schools in a 2002 survey. The comparatively low rating of faculty accessibility and social life confirmed the long-held stereotype that, despite Harvard’s reputation as the gold standard of education, the University in many ways fails to meet the needs of its undergraduate needs. Many administrators and House Masters contacted could not explain the source of the party ban. “We just inherited it...we came into a tradition,” Conley said...