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...take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began trying to climb it. As one of the rover wheels began rolling up the side of Yogi, sensors aboard Sojourner detected a tilt and shut down the little vehicle, leaving it hung up, in effect, on the rock...
...Richard Hahn, does not disagree. "There's been a consensus that one hospital would be a good goal to strive for," he says. But over the past 15 years, four attempts to merge have failed when the two sides could not agree on whether the new hospital would tilt toward a group practice of salaried doctors or the classic system of independent ones. At Dunn, doctors are all self-employed and work for patients on a fee-for-service basis. "The worst thing that has happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year...
...Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge: "It's questionable how much he can look like a reformer sweeping the place clean when he's the one who presided over the mess in the first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges, was succinct: "They'll try to get rid of me -- a knife in the back and that...
Although the two reports were prepared entirely independently and with different sources of input, they both came to the conclusion that Harvard students need to know more about quantitative methods. This is not such an unreasonable conclusion given the current tilt in the Core toward the humanities, but one that is likely to elicit a negative reaction from many undergraduates. This is because most people simply do not like math. To a majority of the population (even at Harvard), the word can prompt feelings of terror, fear and even disgust. Indeed, it is a disturbing national trend that ignorance...
...telling women to begin mammography exams at 40. Although all agree yearly mammograms should start at age 50, current scientific opinion is divided on whether exams between the ages of 40 and 49 are necessary and cost-effective. While this new study doesn't resolve that dispute, it could tilt the balance...