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Brown has challenges of his own. As the architect of Labour's economic policies, he has presided over an economy that has broken records by notching up an astonishing 58 consecutive quarters of growth. Yet he still faces the huge task of raising the quality of public services, particularly the health system, up to French levels. (The French have their own problems extracting value for money from their hospitals, but at least patients don't need to wait six months for a nonemergency medical procedure.) Both countries have a spending problem: French national debt has quintupled since 1980, while Britain...
...task for researchers is to clarify who, eventually, should take the polypill. Separate trials in Australia (in the indigenous community) and New Zealand will involve 1,200 subjects who have had a cardiovascular event. A problem with patients in this category is that, after six months or so, many stop taking the battery of medications prescribed to prevent a second episode. Often they feel well and balk at the cost, inconvenience or stigma of popping five pills a day. But slackening off can be deadly: between a third and a half of the more than 50,000 Australians...
...crews of Harvard and Radcliffe face a unique challenge this weekend: find time to win the Eastern Sprints championships and write that final tutorial paper, all in a span of two days. To say the least, it’s no easy task. And as the Radcliffe lightweight and heavyweight crews set out for Camden, N.J. on Friday, the team will be bringing its oars, its boats, and most definitely its books to the river. Priority number one is bringing home the gold, but the crew wouldn’t mind an A- as well. “Having...
Harvard’s Director of Community Relations for Boston Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 told the task force that the University’s Allston planners have been engaging “with a number of our colleagues internally to share with them the ideas that you put forward in the community matrix and ask them about how they think their work will contribute to the realization of many of those goals...
After Lue outlined the current outreach programs that Harvard provides to the local area—including seminars with local high school teachers, faculty lectures, and student field trips to Harvard’s science labs—task force member Bruce Houghton said he wished the University had come to the meeting with concrete plans instead of ideas...