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...deformed over the years by fear of litigation, by insurance costs, by rising competition, by billowing bureaucracy and even by improvements in technology that introduce new risks even as they reduce old ones. So doctors resist having tests done if they aren't absolutely sure they are needed. They weigh the advantages of teaching hospitals at which you're more likely to find the genius diagnostician vs. community hospitals where you may be less likely to bring home a nasty hospital-acquired infection. They avoid having elective surgery in July, when the new doctors are just starting their internships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tradition-Rich East Rejects NCAA Offer | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...still have 400 pages to go, I give Marx a pat on the head and move on. The second option is selective reading. In fact, many professors expect that their students will not do all the required reading. But what to cut? Undergrads are rarely in a position to weigh the merits of unfamiliar texts. One text may provide background for another, or offer an important critique, or update an outdated argument. If we cut one, we might as well cut the other. Professors who overwhelm their students with copious amounts of reading are doing them a disservice. Balancing social...

Author: By Thomas B. Dolinger, | Title: Making Time To Speak to Lear | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

With a grand jury now expected to convene Monday to weigh indictments of two or three of the Duke lacrosse players tied to allegations of raping an exotic dancer, defense lawyers say they fear their clients are being targeted in a setup or sting operation possibly perpetrated by law enforcement. The lawyers have advised the players not to trust or respond to any e-mails sent to each other, one attorney tells Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were Duke Players Victims of an E-Mail Sting? | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...mist ache is maid It shoes before two long And eye can put the error write It’s rare lea ever wrongEye have run this poem threw it I’m shore your please to no It’s letter perfect all the weigh My chequer towed me sew-Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past, locked away with good penmanship...

Author: By Jessica A. Berger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Bee or Not To Bee | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

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