<p>A new book looks at the long history of education reform in Boston and concludes that, as in the 19th century, expecting education to fix the problems of an unequal society is wishful thinking. </p>
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At the 1936 International Conference of Business Cycle Institutes, sponsored by the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, Vienna. Ludwig von Mises is seated in the center with mustache and cigarette. Gottfried Haberler also pictured, at right. (Source) â
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat from Nebraska, ran for president on a fusion ticket with the Populist Party. This cartoonist from a Republican magazine thought the âPopocraticâ ticket was too ideologically mismatched to win. Bryan did lose, but his campaign, the first of three he waged for the White House, transformed the Democrats into an anti-corporate, p
At least 100 Communist Chinese police officers raided a Catholic seminary in Hebei (Northeast China) on May 20-21 and arrested seven priests, 10 seminarians, and Bishop Zhang Weizhu, reported Asia News.
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This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on the power of touch in the clinical medical environment.
In Part 2, we will resume our interview with Stephen W. Russell, MD, co-president of the Society of Bedside Medicine and professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
According to Aristotle, the first and most important sensation that human beings share with the animal kingdom is touch. Without touch, he posited, animals cannot exist.
1 The philosopher took these theories a step further, linking sensory perception with the soul; the sensitive soul, in particular, renders animals capable of feeling pleasure and pain, and of the senses governed by this soul, touch or tactility was considered the âmost pervasive and intelligent.â