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Preface passage: accountability and test contracts

My job here is not quite done: I need to write the acknowledgments and complete the marketing questionnaire. But the rest is done. Done. Done! (at least until the copyeditor comes back with 1001 queries) The following is a short passage from the preface. I scrolled down and up fairly randomly and then snipped a bit […]

2624 missing citations

Here’s why you check the text against the references before the manuscript goes to the publisher: With 658 publications listed currently, there are still 26 I mentioned in the text but didn’t have in the references section, and there are a bunch in the references section that don’t appear in the text. So I’ll be […]

When to shut down a school

You probably didn’t expect this subject from the title, but the entry today isn’t about accountability, it’s about public health. The Bloomberg news story today about this year’s bird-flu cases has an interesting school angle, as DemFromCT (on DailyKos) notes: one of the simplest community interventions to prevent the spread of a contagious is to close the […]