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Handwashing is important for doctors, and sometimes they need nudges to do it.
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How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care

by Dhruv Khullar | Apr 17, 2017 | Business

I’m a physician at the end of more than a decade of training. I’ve dissected cadavers in anatomy lab. I’ve pored over tomes on the physiology of disease. I’ve treated thousands of patients with ailments as varied as hemorrhoids and cancer. And yet the way I care for...

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In 2006, tourist navigate around jersey barriers placed in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for security. (Lauren Victoria Burke/AP)

It’s Nearly Impossible to Stop Terrorists from Using Trucks as Weapons

by Adam Taylor | Apr 17, 2017 | Features

Nice, Berlin, London and now Stockholm. Over the past year, terrorist attacks using vehicles have become a sad fact of life in Europe. Such attacks are obviously appealing to would-be mass murderers: In most European nations, a truck is far easier to acquire than a...

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A Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) weapon © DOD / AFP

Some in Afghanistan Question US Choice to Use 22,000-pound Bomb against ISIS

by Erin Cunningham | Apr 17, 2017 | Features

KABUL — US forces in Afghanistan have not yet assessed the impact of a massive strike on ISIS militants in the eastern part of the country, a military spokesman said Friday, raising questions about the already controversial decision to deploy a 22,000-pound bomb on...

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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb is pictured in this undated handout photo. Elgin Air Force Base / Reuters

‘Mother of all Bombs’ and Mr. President

by Ghassan Charbel | Apr 17, 2017 | Opinion

“Mother of all bombs” is really scary, it weighs ten tons and has unprecedented explosive capabilities, if we exclude the nuclear bomb. The bomb is designed to penetrate barricades and invade dungeons and tunnels. There is no hope for anyone in the targeted place. It...

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Saudi women and men, members of the Saudi Shura Council, attend a session chaired by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, in Riyadh December 23, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Saudi Shura Council Endorses Selective Tax Scheme

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Apr 17, 2017 | Business

Riyadh – The Saudi Shura Council has endorsed the draft Selective Tax Scheme (STS) which will be submitted to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in compliance with Shura Council regulations. In the past week, the council...