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“Baby Bollinger” (first name: Allen) was born to Anna and Allen Bollinger at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The seven-pound Baby Bollinger was diagnosed with multiple physical anomalies and became the first victim in a string of public infanticides of disabled babies committed by the head of staff at the hospital, Dr. Harry Haiselden. The doctor declared Baby Bollinger a “mo...

Leading Large Scale Change Readings on Stakeholder Management

The most pertinent part of this article is the section entitled “Skills for Effective Network Management” which describes a skill set that enables managers to function effectively when they have to work in a setting with multiple stakeholders (e.g. a network setting). It describes what is important (such as identifying key stakeholders) and the skills needed to accomplish the goals of the coali...

Poetry Readings

overview Readings

1. Simple labor supply models with correction for non-participation (PS #3) 2. Other approaches to kinked budget sets discretization 3. Dynamic labor supply introduction and overview Readings Thomas A. Mroz. “The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions.” Econometrica, 55 (4) (July, 1987), pp. 765-799. Arthur van Soest "Structura...

Palm readings.

Scientists are taking technology in common laboratory usage for more than 15 years and adapting it in ways that may, quite literally, bring the laboratory into the field. The technology is known as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and a team of scientists has taken a sensing unit that was once the size of an old-fashioned console television and shrunken it down into a handheld unit no bigger th...