Author Archives: David Collin

Wake up call

When I woke up this morning, grabbed a cup of coffee to steady myself, and flipped on the computer, what should greet me as the first news item but: “Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas.” This thing is heating up as a political issue and the everybody is getting their licks in. Companies wanting to fend-off protectionist moves are saying ...

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Say "hi" to Adam Pellegrini!

Adam is Director of Systems Marketing for the great Northwest Division. He’s going to be making posts here in FI Space. He’s also the reciptient of an FI Center Springboard grant called the Health Reminder Assistant. It’s a cool Net-based system to… Nah, just read all about the Health Reminder Assistant in Adam’s post.

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Job export discussion

Last evening while cooking dinner I surfed TV channels and came across a C-SPAN press conference at the Brookings Institute about an editorial piece published in the Intl. Herald Tribune on 1/7 by NY Senator Charles Schumer and Charles Roberts, a former Treasury undersecretary in the Regan administration. As my chops sizzled they discussed the piece titled “Exporting jobs is ...

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Vive la differance

On the road to “personalized medicine” it’s going to be necessary to drill down past some of our old generalities and look at some subtle differences. Here’s a new institute at Georgetown U to study differences of medical significance between men and women. Differences between men and women with biological significance include a lot more than the obvious.

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