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...technology to figure out which treatments are most effective. This seems eminently sensible: might certain heart patients, for example, do just as well with clot-busting drugs as with more expensive angioplasty procedures? The drug route could save about $7000 a patient Crunching huge amounts of data from a wide cross section of patients could help us do better research than we are doing now. But what will happen when the new computerized research turns up a treatment that works a little better but costs much more? Will they tell us? What happens to the patient whose particular circumstances argue...
...make a movie—one that would use this premise to raise questions of absolute love, power, need, and want. “Absurdistan”—filmed in the desert villages of Azerbaijan—is more than just the story of a town-wide sex strike; it’s an enchanting tale of romantic and poetic love. There is very little dialogue—all of which is delivered in German, adding to the otherness of the film’s overall impression—and most information is relayed through the voiced-over...
...costs allocated to OneSource, the cleaning subcontractor for Harvard Real Estate properties. Only about 40 percent of Harvard’s custodial staff is directly hired, so similar measures at other schools and departments would drastically affect the overall custodial staffing levels. These cuts are part of a university-wide effort to reduce spending to compensate for the rumored $8 billion loss in Harvard’s endowment. Although additional layoffs of service employees have yet to be announced, many workers are bracing themselves for similar layoffs across all departments and schools...
...operative back from Iraq says the room for exploiting our gullibility when it comes to chatter is wide. "There is little understanding of deception in the agency anymore. As a service, it doesn't do deception operations and therefore doesn't believe they are run against...
...justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court has worldwide authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, one-thirtieth the size of the New York Police Department's. It has wide agreement on what constitute the worst offenses, but its mandate to prosecute them is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...