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With this in mind, in 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which accredits post-medical school training programs in the U.S., implemented new rules that wisely limited residents to work no more than six days per week, 80 hours per week, and 30 hours per shift. But a report published this month by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers found that four out of every five residents had violated the regulations at least once in their first year of residency. With lives at stake, hospitals need to continue to work towards greater compliance with the ACGME rules...
...were hoping that as many other institutions as possible would join us,” Fitzsimmons said.‘WHEN HARVARD SNEEZES....’College advisors said they were thrilled with the announcement and they hope yesterday’s move marks the beginning of a general shift among top universities to end early-admissions programs.“I am surprised at how quickly this happened, but I am not surprised at the snowball effect,” said a college adviser at The Key School in Annapolis, Md., Paul M. Stoneham.Cuseo, of Harvard-Westlake, said...
College advisors said they were thrilled with the announcement and they hope yesterday’s move marks the beginning of a general shift among top universities to end early admissions programs...
...shift in attitude reflects how the nuclear issue is no longer so important to Iranians. Earlier this year, the president extended his appeal to Iran's urban middle class by taking a tough stand on the country's right to nuclear power. That radical approach won over many Iranians, especially when the U.S. finally agreed to join Europe in negotiations with Iran. Even the most ardent secularist I know, a Westernized engineer, started quoting from Ahmadinejad's speeches, and ordered his staff to stop circulating jokes about the president on their mobile phones. But the hard-line approach...
...information system, by which distributors send daily sales reports. That allows managers to quickly adjust prices and product mix based on real-time data. Results? Lenovo's India sales jumped 44% in the second quarter of 2006 from the year before, according to IDC. "There was a fundamental shift when we worked with the Chinese team," says Neeraj Sharma, general manager of South Asia for Lenovo. Such gains might be harder to come by in mature markets like the U.S. and Europe. But over the past year, Lenovo has got space at major chains Office Depot and Best...