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AGADEZ, Niger—My great-grandfather Emmott O’Keefe was a doctor. He made house-calls in Northern North Dakota on a dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs...
...Harvard,” he says. “I had an epiphany on my third day there: This place would be just as good as a summer camp where you met other people, networked, and learned from them. I feel the education I got there was distant and useless and uncaring. I feel they sort of squandered my youth and my father’s savings...
...first to go,” she says, mentioning that poetry offers little chance for financial gain.Free-verse poetry seems especially impractical, she says, because “there’s nothing much you can do with it.”“It seems useless,” she says. “That offers it a little protection in a way because no one is interested in it.”THE PROFESSOR In spite of poetry’s declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant...
...saving, which the government can subsidize with a tax break (it can't be more expensive than building the nuclear stations that Prime Minister Tony Blair proposed in May). Similarly, Britain gives motorists breaks on efficient cars, but new guidelines make the program so restrictive that it's useless. Instead, governments should be moving in the opposite direction: give me a cash rebate for buying a highly efficient car, and charge me a tax if I don't. Such "feebates" are gaining popularity with state governments in the U.S. Yes, consumerism itself is part of the global-warming problem...
...important resource for course selection, but in order for it to be useful as possible, the CUE survey needs to convey as much information as possible about all courses, not just those whose professors consent. And students need to participat, lest the entire survey be rendered useless. These changes will help the CUE to better serve its purpose, which, in the words of Gross in his recorded message to the College community, “is to let students know where the good courses is. Are.” And since we all want to know where the good courses...