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...free prescription-grade heroin in a research trial and running a medically supervised injection site--while carefully gathering data on the effects of city policies. At the heart of this experiment is Buxton, a physician-epidemiologist affiliated with the University of British Columbia medical school, who monitors the situation firsthand and meets several times a year with a committee of police, health workers, charities and support groups to collate their reports. "We're looking at the numbers of people affected, hospital utilization, deaths related to drug use and where interventions are needed," she says...
Having seen firsthand what sleep deprivation can do, I'm now making a conscious effort to get more shut-eye. I still don't know why we sleep in the first place, but I have a much better feel for what happens...
Cataclysm usually makes for a teaching moment. Not so with the resignation of Larry Summers.If I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand, I’d say Summers’ ouster had all the makings of one of those storylines in which implausible characters make the plot altogether fantastic and unredeemed.The recent events are a scene lifted from Kafka, where an unthinking chimera called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seizes upon wrongdoings that few outside the academy would conceive of as wrong and then tenaciously holds on, overseeing the two-year-long persecution of their boss for these...
...director of global labor relations at Coca-Cola, I share the concerns of student activists regarding labor conditions around the world. Through my work on the United Nations International Labor Organization, I have seen firsthand the manifold difference it makes in the lives of individuals, families, communities and entire countries when employers live up to the responsibilities due their workers. In my experience, the campaigns that are the most successful are those grounded in irrefutable fact and driven by a commitment to justice. In the case of the campaign against The Coca-Cola Company, the facts tell quite a different...
...Harvard graduate, I want to applaud Harvard for including Positive Psychology in its offerings, and understanding the importance of sharing the science of well-being with undergraduates. This is a group that is starving for this information, which I’ve seen firsthand in my own bulging practice...