In February 2019, the Kaiser Permanente health system announced a new kind of medical school. The school would be built “from the ground up” to prepare students for the complexities of the U.S. medical system. The curriculum would emphasize cultural competency, patient and provider well-being, and the elimination of socioeconomic disparities in the medical system. Students would see patients right away, and hands-on learning would replace many lectures. What’s more, the first five graduating classes would pay nothing to attend; Kaiser hoped this would attract a student body more diverse than the typical U. Read More...
Open-mouthed crowds in Moscow’s Supreme Court sat hour after hour last week on uncomfortable wooden benches while Soviet prosecutors and judges in ill-fitting business suits wove one of Red Russia’s most exciting murder cases around the shifty-eyed figure of Konstantin Semenchuk, 49, for the past two years Governor of Wrangel Island. Murder is not a very serious crime in Russia, carrying a maximum penalty of only ten years imprisonment. Horrified as the testimony piled up against Semenchuk, prosecutors quickly changed the charge to “banditry,” i. Read More...
Charitable magazine The Big Issue has paired up with digital bank Monzo to create the “world’s first resellable magazine”. Branded ‘Pay it Forward’, each magazine has a QR code allowing customers to resell their magazine to a friend after purchase. This in turn will allow the vendor to earn more from each edition sold.
The Big Issue was established in 1991 with a mission to give ‘a hand up not a hand out’ to those who have no fixed address. Read More...
