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Maybe too much of an increase, argues Tom Delbanco, chair of general medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Discovery is intoxicating," he says. "But the consequences of discovery are often complex, and instead of progress, it can lead to disaster." Delbanco is worried that the revolution in genetic medicine may further drain the limited amount of time that physicians have to spend with patients and add even more costs to the already expensive health-care system...
...Clinton administration has been correctly accused of lacking a coherent foreign policy vision, and instead simply responding to crises. In its defense, it must be noted that crises have proliferated on an unprecedented, alarming scale in the decade since communism's collapse. But that deepens the urgency of defining U.S. interests on a world scale, fashioning policy objectives on the basis of those interests, building alliances on the basis of those objectives and using a variety of policy levers to realize them, always guided by a comprehensive global picture...
...after saying I was from Kansas City, instead of being confused over whether I was a farm girl or not, the first question was always automatically, "Kansas City, Missouri or Kansas City, Kansas?" This is a crucial point of misunderstanding--even a Harvard website had trouble with the distinction. The president of the Kansas City Harvard/Radcliffe Club has an office in Johnson County, but the site listed it as being in Missouri...
Together we were the New Labor party, proper poster children for Tony Blair's ideology of inclusion. And together we faced the old guard--the old boys who treat Westminster as a clubhouse instead of a legislature. We faced them...
...would surely feel your glance reflect off of his cue-ball head. You can't look out the window because, well, you're underground most of the time, and when you aren't, you can only look down toward the grass because you are taller than the windows. So, instead, you look up and down the train, above the heads of the average Joes and Janes. Sometimes, you close your eyes because there just is nowhere else to look. And you have to be careful what you do because everyone else looks up to you. No picking your nose...