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  • A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

    Archive from 6/13/07 – Everyone wants to do a good job, but doctors are under constant pressure to perform perfectly. Dr. Atul Gawande knows first hand what it’s like to work under stressful conditions. The 2006 MacArthur Fellow and general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is the author of “Better: A […]

  • How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity

    Archive from 6/28/07 – What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His book is “The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National […]