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...Johns Hopkins Center in Calcutta, began using IV saline treatment at a border camp, but within weeks his supplies were exhausted. Amid awful scenes in which people walked for days only to die, Mahalanabis and his team drew on their experiences in Calcutta. They formed an assembly line to weigh out correct proportions of rehydration ingredients in plastic bags, sealed the bags with an iron, and mixed the powder with water so patients' friends and relatives could collect it in mugs. "We converted the library at Johns Hopkins into a factory," Mahalanabis, now 79, recalls. "We brought in drums with...
...rightfully so—the methods for qualifying and assessing exemplary educational performance are not the same as those that track our gross domestic product. Unfortunately, the report proposes an extensive “consumer-friendly information database” that will allow people to “weigh and rank comparative institutional performance.” Not only is this proposal cynical about the purpose of education—reducing, as it does, students to “consumers” and academics to “institutional performance”—but it additionally places colleges...
Like any junkie, I thought only of myself, taking on a dangerous mission as if others didn't deserve a say, as if the chance of success for me was more important than the certainty of fatherhood for my kids. I didn't weigh the risk to them until I lay bleeding in the bed of a humvee, too late to spare them the fright...
...weigh in on the special-education-funding debate, post your comments at time.com/specialed...
...times inversely related to importance. Two entire lectures are wasted on Freudian theory, which every asshole at Harvard knows inside and out and has probably exploited for at least one Expos paper. Meanwhile, what tends to actually show up on the final is only mentioned in passing. Many students weigh the odds of actually hearing something worthwhile during class and decide to take long lunches instead—only to bomb out on the midterm and final. Don’t be that kid. Or, you know, those four hundred people. On the plus side: no p-sets, your...