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...often with drugs that are taken for the rest of the patient's life. "There was a mind shift that happened in the 1980s," says Dr. John Glaspy, professor of medicine at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We realized that there is a power in the chronic-disease model where you can focus on a high quality of living with a disease instead of necessarily curing it. If we can have people alive, productive and happy, that's now viewed as a very wonderful outcome...
...Indian Point is as safe as a facility can be, and a pretty good model, if not an excellent model, for not only other nuclear power plants but other industries that in many ways are just as sensitive [to security threats]," Giuliani said. The former mayor added that his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, led Entergy through 12 security drills and that Entergy had spent more than $24 million in security improvements in recent years...
...experts from Harvard schools highlighted the University’s help in preventing the spread of AIDS in Brazil at a conference about the disease in the Center for Government and International Studies yesterday. The conference, organized in part by a Harvard undergraduate, presented Brazil as a generally good model for countries affected by AIDS. During the early 1990s the World Bank projected that 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with HIV by 2000. But in 2005 it was estimated that only 600,000 had been infected, according to Professor of Medicine John R. David. “Brazil might...
...Horstmann, an aviation analyst at Bayerische Landesbank, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to bounce back. "But there is a danger it'll get sucked into a vicious circle of job cuts, sinking morale and political infighting," he says. As for Airbus as a model for industrial cooperation, James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, says it remains valid. But, he adds, "these days, Airbus just confirms Anglo-Saxon prejudices that governments waste large amounts of taxpayers' money even when they have a good idea...
...were repressed, Beem--whose book The Lioness Roared focuses on female rule in English history--feels the Tudor era is of particular interest to women in positions of influence. In terms of being a female in a boys' club, Elizabeth was way ahead of her time. "She's the model of female rule in a male-dominated society," Beem says. "Elizabeth was the master of taking female traits and turning them into successful strategies for leading. She was King and Queen at the same time. She became one of the best diplomats of the 16th century by flirting with ambassadors...