Health care battle focuses on Mass. model The doctors and nurses in the emergency room of Holy Family Hospital in Methuen routinely treat patients who lack health insurance.
R&D New software tool to assess global freshwater stress A new method to make better use of vast amounts of data related to global geography, population and climate may help determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change.
Bloomberg Businessweek China: The Next Internship Frontier James Critelli knew only five words of Mandarin, but he didn’t let that stop him from applying last year for a summer internship in China, a country thatâs fascinated him since he accompanied his father there on a business trip as a child.
CNN Money Audit rates of millionaires nearly double The more money you have, the more the IRS wants you. Millionaires were nearly twice as likely to receive a tax audit last year as they were the previous year, according to data released by the IRS this week.
For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position.
NFL bounty scandal: Players debate whether it should have stayed in locker room The debate around the New Orleans Saintsâ pay-for-performance system initially centered around the prevalence of such programs and their propriety within the NFL. But the NFLâs punishments of the team revealed something else: a discord among current and former players not only over the bounty program and the leagueâs response but in the manner in […]
Examining U.S. “Torture Years” In A Theatre, Not A Courtroom When the U.S. was accused of torturing suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, several Boston lawyers expressed their outrage by representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. But one longtime local civil rights attorney took a very different approach.
Global Weirding: One Scientific Explanation Behind Boston’s Warm Weather Unless youâve been living under a freezing cold AC-equipped rock for the past week, youâve undoubtedly noticed the unusually warm spring temperatures gracing Boston. And while weâre all loving the sunshine, the fact that itâs going to be 80 degrees today may be a little unnerving for those that are worried about an apocaletptic, Mayan-predicted, […]
PharmaManufacturing.com Think You Can Teach? Tips on Moving from Pharma to Academia I made the switch from industry in 2007, having been at Pfizer, and itâs too early to decide if itâs been successful or not. I started out at BU in a research faculty position doing hit follow-up med chem and providing med chem and synthesis support to several investigators at the med school, and was […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Mass. 2011 economy grew slower than first thought Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews says because there is a seven-month lag in reporting job census figures, the 2011 numbers are almost certain to undergo more revisions.
France 24 French serial shooter will “see himself as the victim” “Cold, cruel and insensitive”, was how France’s Interior Minister Claude Gueant described the killer responsible for the horrific murder of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse in the aftermath of the killings.
Boston’s largest condo goes smoke-free In a sign of the growing reach of public health and antitobacco forces, Boston’s largest condominium complex has voted to go smoke free.