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...press the Total key on your calculator just yet. Congress is also supposed to appropriate another $3.3 billion to finance research on new high-tech batteries that could be used for cars. The money had been authorized under the same 2007 energy bill that authorized the $25 billion...
Sticks and stones may break your bones - but if you need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that when surgical teams heeded a simple checklist - as pilots do before takeoff - patient-mortality rates were cut nearly in half and complications fell by more than a third...
...remarkable results. "I wish checklists were Harry Potter's magic wand, but they're not," he says. "The behavior changed trivially, not enough for that reduction to be real. Like the stock market, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That said, I think funding research to improve quality and safety has to be a priority...
...occupied a senior position in the Department of Defense under Bill Clinton and has also been a research professor at the National Defense University...
...Plan to Stimulate Urban Prosperity," developed by Obama's campaign, does address crime and poverty. But the majority of its points are focused on building sustainable communities, encouraging green urban policies and supporting "innovation clusters" like North Carolina's Research Triangle. Some of the proposals may be difficult or impossible to translate into federal policy. "They're trying to reproduce what are essentially private initiatives on a national scale," says Glaeser. "Doing that from the top down is very problematic...