Baldwin This Time

This Time of Dying

A must-read for those who think fl u pandemic preparedness is much ado about nothing, this fi rst novel by Reina James brings home the severity and plausibility of a fl u disaster. And without data, statistics, or comment, it makes a compelling case for progress on the matter of infl uenza, to ease suffering, prevent spread, and possibly eliminate the scourge. A series of journal entries beginn...

Richard Baldwin

WHAT CONTRACT ? by Jason Baldwin

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Focusing on value: this time is different.

Over the last 30 years, rounds of therapeutic treatments with cost consciousness and cost containment have been administered to the healthcare industry, with generally disappointing clinical response. The last treatment cycle came in the 1990s, with the combination therapy of prospective payment and managed care, treatments that produced a transient remission in cost inflation but that left the...

Communication between plants: this time it's real.

Of course, neighboring plants in natural communities interact: we usually think of plants competing for sunlight and soil nutrients. Few topics in plant ecology have inspired so much excitement and controversy, however, as communication between plants. The idea, simply put, is that rooted and immobile plants might act to increase their levels of defense by responding to cues from neighbors that...