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...doctors to test products, to help design or tout products and sometimes just to use a particular product (as in kickback). Orthopedists are hardly the only doctors paid by medical companies, but when the sheer amount of money being given to orthopedists came out of the shade into the sharp San Francisco sunshine last week, it did make quite a few of us blink...
...After a sharp decline at the end of 2007, violence in Iraq seems to be on the upswing. The weekend's violence indicates that both the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias retain their ability and their desire to strike their enemies. The largest Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, is observing a cease-fire and militia violence has fallen dramatically. But rogue elements of the organization continue to launch attacks against Americans. Sunday's mortars were launched from a Shi'ite enclave...
...recover after a three-goal Badgers outburst early in the second period left the Crimson in a two-goal hole.“It turned the whole tide of the game,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Defensively, we weren’t as sharp as we were all season, and they’re a good team and when they see things they capitalize.”After the Crimson took an early 1-0 lead less than five minutes into the first period, the opening frame carried on with fast-paced, back...
...housing lottery did not always work this way—Harvard undergraduates used to submit housing preferences. In the early nineties, however, it became clear that allowing students to preference their housing choices was fostering sharp divisions within undergraduate life. Most notably, although Harvard was becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, various undergraduate houses were becoming more racially homogenous. This alarmed College higher-ups. To correct for this discrepancy, randomization was born...
...migrant workers roaming the streets in search of jobs is bound to keep Beijing's economic policymakers, who fear the political consequences of widespread social unrest, up at night. Sun, the Lehman Brothers economist, says as manufacturers are pushed to the brink, China's stock markets could see sharp declines. Given that many large, listed Chinese companies pad their profits by investing in stocks themselves, "a big correction could bring [corporate earnings] even lower, and a vicious cycle could result," says...