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...There's always been reason to worry about the influence of Big Pharma on the practice of medicine. When doctors are being lavished with meals and speaking fees by the likes of Pfizer and Merck, can you really trust them when they later write prescriptions for those companies' drugs? Medical schools were long considered above such vulgar stuff. Now, however, it turns out that many professors and instructors are, legally, on the dole as well, and students are beginning to worry that what they're being taught is just as one-sided as what patients are being prescribed. Campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Drug-Company Money Tainting Medical Education? | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...three quarters teaching and one quarter research”—places a much larger emphasis on teaching than ladder-faculty positions do. Since the Fellows would be teaching “almost full time,” they may not have enough time to write and do research, said Gennaro Chierchia, chair of the Linguistics department. Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis said that he is optimistic about the fact that the position places such a large emphasis on teaching, since it may signal a shift in the qualities sought in future professors...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D.s To Fill Teaching Posts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...weren't for Fortune Society," says Victor Chapman, 44, a Castle resident who served 3½ years in prison for assault (committed to support a crack habit) but who now appears at college literature courses to talk about the Society's therapeutic oral-history project that is helping him write his autobiography. (Read TIME's 1971 cover story about Attica prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another By-Product of the Recession: Ex-Convicts | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...Social Anthropology concentrator says, laughing nervously, adding that her target audience consists of six- to eight-year-olds. “It’s probably going to be published at some point,” Kaplan says slowly of the book she hopes to write. “Though I’m no where near there yet.”Though her summer experience taught her that she does not, in fact, want to be an illustrator—she fears she lacks the technical skills required of such artists—Kaplan says that she plans...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Artistic Liquidities | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...parents’ friends (especially Sandra’s father, a cookie-cutter Jewish stereotype). He’s bipolar, but rarely shows any emotion, be it depression, elation, or anything in between.Gray uses Leonard’s bipolarity and Michelle’s ADHD as an excuse to write bad dialogue (Leonard to Michelle: “He left you. I’d never do that. I’d take care of you. Because that’s what you deserve. You deserve to be loved”). He has no excuse for Sandra, though, who professes...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Lovers | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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