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...follows the money. Ophthalmology presented a great example of this. Back when Medicare payed $5000 for taking out a cataract, fully half of the class of medical students I taught were trying to get ophthalmology residencies. (Although three-fourths of them had declared "primary care practice in under-served urban environments" on their med school applications.) Now that a cataracts pays $600, there are maybe a couple kids per class going into the eye field. Because specialists did more training, because they use more expensive parts and pills, because they (might) handle more dangerous situations, because there are fewer...
...building, she was impressed by his passion for the obscure sport and encouraged him to apply for a $4,500 leadership scholarship, which he is using to create a nonprofit to spread the word about parkour. As he quietly trains on campus, Cecka is preparing the paperwork for an urban-reclamation club to spruce up the school and build goodwill to one day get university officials to sanction parkour. "Hopefully, they'll listen to me then and won't immediately turn me down due to liability concerns," he says...
...inspired premise: to commemorate, update and parody the infra-dig, ultraviolent '70s genre movies that used to fill three hours at scuzzy urban theaters. And just the right auteur-perps showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane...
Stephanie Pedro, 27, is no Paul Kersey, the New York architect-turned-vigilante Charles Bronson played in the the Death Wish movies. But the unrelenting crime wave that has gripped New Orleans in recent months has prompted the young urban planner to consider measures that she once considered extreme...
...Kabera, however, the most important aspect of the festival is Hillywood: "It is extremely important that we reach the rural areas, not only the urban middle class," he says. "In a country where 80% of the population can't read and write properly [the government estimates illiteracy at around 24%] movies can be an important tool to bring education to the people...