Asians fear backlash after shooting
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21577508-1702,00.html?from=public_rss
Me too."hilscher had never mentioned him to those closer to her, and family friend
john mccarthy said that if he was driven by love, it had never been
reciprocated"
"In a several-page-long note found in his dorm room after the massacre, the
23-year-old student wrote: “You caused me to do this”, according to ABC
News.
The note included a rambling list of grievances, the Chicago Tribune
reported. "
"But among his English class peers, Cho was known for writing gory, morbid plays
that belied his silent presence in class, the campus newspaper has reported. "
"He was, like, normal," Mr Grewal, a 21-year-old accounting major, told the
Tribune. He said he went back to sleep but, according to authorities, Cho stayed
awake. "He did not seem like a guy that's capable of anything like this,"
Mr Grewal said. "
"According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed, the man came to the US
last year on a student visa issued in Shanghai. "
none of this really makes sense. the doors were locked.no actually saw him shoot anyone. how do we really know he did it?
conspiracy? boycott?
Contradictory Results
A few years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that
evaluated various types of professional education as if they were financial
investments.
The idea was to see if doctors were overpaid, by considering primary and
specialty medical education as investments and comparing them with investing in
education in business, law, and dentistry (but not university professors -- that
would have been too embarassing). Adjustments were made for differences
in average working hours. The authors found that primary medicine was the
poorest investment of all of these. Specialty medicine did better, but was
not out of line with the other professions.
In the results was this oddity: By the criterion of the net present
value of lifetime educational costs and income benefits, specialist physicians
tied for highest with attorneys. Both were ahead of business school
graduates.However, by the criterion of the internal rate of return,
specialty physicians, with a 21% average return, were well behind the attorneys'
25% average return, while the business school graduates' 29% average return was
the highest of all. The present value and the internal rate of return
ranked the alternatives differently!
By the way, since this article's 1994 publication, managed care has forced
specialty physician incomes down by perhaps one-third. This has sharply
lowered the investment value of a specialty medical education.