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...some docs may chafe at being hitched to a team. One sweetener Dartmouth's Fisher recommends is forgiving some medical-school debts - an idea Obama endorsed at an Oct. 5 photo op with doctors, though in his plan, the break would be limited to those who agree to work in underserved or rural markets...
...unscientific survey of married friends and found that none of them had a clue either. At work and out in the world, I'm Ms. Gibbs; at my daughters' school and the pediatrician, I am Mrs. May; to a few people who've known me since I was 2, Miss Nancy. Some friends use their husband's name, but their e-mail addresses are their maiden name, though that dainty phrase seems to have been banished in favor of birth name. I never understood why, from the perspective of fighting the patriarchy, it was somehow more liberated to bear your...
...French-Algerian physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was arrested Oct. 8 after French officials discovered encoded e-mails between him and members of an al-Qaeda cell based in North Africa. Adlčne Hicheur, who worked at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, allegedly offered to help the group plan attacks in France. Initial news reports focused on Hicheur's work at the high-energy research lab, prompting speculation that al-Qaeda might be attempting to create nuclear or radioactive weapons. But a spokesman for CERN said the lab has been closed since last September...
...recipient, which Nobel instructed should be the person who has performed the "best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," is determined by a five-member committee appointed by Norway's Parliament. Nominations are solicited from an undisclosed number of contributors--past winners, prominent institutions--and the winner is decided by a simple majority vote...
...work out how to operate a television set, you practically have to make love to the thing...