Richard Stevens

Richard Stevens
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CMS told them to get their act together. People are walking away from prescription counters without their medication.
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The whole process of going in and out of sleep may be natural and important.
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Electric lighting as a driver of the breast-cancer epidemic worldwide -- that's a dramatic big thing, and new.
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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It's too early in the game to tell you, but it's a serious possibility.
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This evening could have been better spent almost anywhere if you wanted to find your pulse rate.
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We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.