U.S. News and World Report

We talked about the U.S. News and World Report, which is the bible for a lot of academic institutions. They wave it around, saying, We re number one. I know whenever I visit a school, it is astonishing as soon as that issue comes out, the first thing every department chair says to me is, We re number two or We re number four. There is a real possibility that if the ranking included diversity as part of the metric, people would sit up and take notice. 

Madhouse brainwashing—The Soviets method. (1976, February 16). U.S. News and World Report, p. 30. 

Retrieved from a database provider 318 Hallet, V. Scanning the Globe for Organic Chemistry. U.S. News and World Report [Online], April 19,2004, p 59. Business Source Premier, http //www.epnet.com/academic/ bussourceprem.asp (accessed April 24,2005). 

Ember, Worldwide Spread of Chemical Arms Receiving Increased Attention , p.9 Webster, Hearings...C/t m/ca/ and Biological Weapons Threat, p.36 M. Satchell with E. Blaug, A Plague of Hellish Poison , U.S, News and World Report, vol.103, no. 17 (26 October 1987), p.32 M.R. Gordon, U.S. Thinks Libya May Plan to Make Chemical Weapons , p.A6. 

Schubert and Lapp, Radiation, pp. 88-107, 112, 154-180 "Now There s a Warning about Too Much X Ray," U.S. News and World Report, 22 June 1956, pp. 63-64 Jack G. Shaheen, ed.. Nuclear War Films (Carbondale Southemlllinois University Press, 1978), pp. 3-25. 

Mundy, Alicia. Weight-loss Wars A Spate of Deaths and a Raft of Lawsuits Over Diet Drugs. U.S. News World Report. February 15,1999, pp. 42—44. 

WitUn, Gordon. Should You Own a Gun U.S. News World Report, vol. 117, August 15, 1994, pp. 24ff. Uses the question of gun ownership to introduce the overall debate about gun control. The article features a debate between Gary Kleck, whose research shows that gun owners use their guns for defense up to 2.5 million times a year (seldom shooting them) and that criminals are deterred by their fear of armed citizens, and Arthur Kellermann, whose equally provocative study found that guns in the home were 43 times more likely to kill a resident or friend than an armed intruder. 

Headden, Susan. Guns, Money and Medicine The Proliferation of Powerful New Weapons Has Sent the Cost of Crime Spiraling. Here s Why You Pay. U.S. News World Report, vol. 121, July 1, 1996, pp. 30ff. Analyzes the health costs caused by gun crime, using a variety of example cases. The costs are increasing due to the proliferation of more powerful weapons. All consumers end up paying more for these health costs because tax money must be used to care for the majority of victims, who are uninsured. 

Gest, Ted. Little Think Tank Big Impact. U.S. News World Report, vol. 115, December 6, 1993, p. 26. Describes the efforts of Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center. The organization has issued research reports that zero in on emerging controversies such as those over assault weapons and gun dealer licensing. 

Wilson, Chris Oliver. Disarming News Why Bobbies Have No Guns. U.S. News World Report, vol. 124, February 9, 1998, pp. 46ff. Describes the total ban on handguns that Britain put into effect in response to the 1996 school shootings at Dunblane, Scotland, that left 16 dead. Wilson notes that 95 percent of British police officers are unarmed, and four out of five say they do not wish to carry guns. 

Volland, Adam. Shopping for a Drug Plan. U.S. News World Report 143, no. 18 (November 19, 2007) 79-80. Medicare participants need to select their prescription drug plans carefully. As reported in this article, costs can vary widely across plan providers and even across years for the same provider. The author gives advice on making effective choices and on keeping costs for prescription drugs low. 

Baldauf, Sarah. Former Pharma Pitchman Beware of New Drugs. Interview with T. Nesi. U.S. News World Report 145, no. 10 (November 3-10, 2008) 64. Tom Nesi, formerly the director of public affairs at Bristol-Myers Squibb, has an insider s view of the sales and marketing tactics used by pharmaceutical companies. Based on his experiences, he warns consumers to avoid taking free sample pills, exercise caution when offered a new medication, and learn about potential side effects. Fie also talks about the history of Vioxx, a drug removed form the market after research showed it caused heart attacks and strokes. 

Schultz, S. and Kleiner, C., Turning to anything, just to get that high, U.S. News World Report, p. 60, June 5, 2000. 

Sheila Kaplan and Shannon Brownlee, Duke s hazards-Did medical experiments put patients needlessly at risk U.S. News World Report, 24 May 1999 (the Web version of the story can be found at ). 

The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and U.S. News World Report. The first publication is published Monday-Friday, providing daily business news. The other two are weekly business journals. All three often contain articles pertaining to the chemical industry. 

Making payment for medical services dependent on diagnoses leads many physicians to game the system. From a story in U. S. News World Report, titled Is Your Doctor Lying for You , we learn that because some insurance plans do not cover treatment for depression, Daniel Sulmasy, chair of the department of ethics at St. Vincent s Hospital and Medical Center in New York, writes down a code for sleep disorder if a depressed person is having trouble sleeping. Then he can prescribe a medication, like Paxil. 5i Of course, the physician could prescribe Paxil even if he coded for depression, except in that case the patient would have to pay for the drug. 

L. Lief with M. Wise, Inside Bonn s Middle East Arms Bazaar , U.S News < World Report, vol.108, no.21 (28 May 1990), p.41 Brzoska, Behind the German Export Scandals , p.35 S.J. Lundin and T. Stock, Chemical and... 

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1953. FAMU ranks 15 for Tier 1 universities of the U.S. News World Report ranking of HBCU s for 2009. FAMU opened with an initial cohort of fifteen students and now enrolls more than 11,587 students. Created in 1987, FAMU s College of Engineering is a joint program with Florida State University (FSU) and is unique in that regard. 

The People s Verdict, Hutchinson Co., London 1944, pp. 8f., 49, 50, 65, 69, Ilf., 85, 89f. cf. also note 11, and the report in the Moscow News no. 7, July 1990, quoted in U. Walendy, op. cit. (note 11), p. 21 also J.C. Ball, Air Photo Evidence. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdcmek, Sobibor, Bergen Belsen, Belzec, Babi Yar, Katyn Forest. World War II photos of alleged mass murder camps, Ball Resource Services Ltd., Delta/BC, Canada, 1992, pp. 9 and 13, who mentions the Black Ravens used by the Soviets in Katyn. 

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