Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Feet in mouth disease. | Comment Feet in mouth disease Gregory A Petsko Address Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center Brandeis University Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA. E-mail petsko@ Published 28 February 2005 Genome Biology 2005 6 105 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2005 6 3 105 2005 BioMed Central Ltd The fascinating thing about Dr Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University s beleaguered President is not that he often puts his foot in his mouth. We all do that. It s human nature to blurt things out and later wish we hadn t. I can t count the number of times I should have put my brain in gear before letting up the clutch on my tongue. When I was interviewed for my firstjob I actually said Oh salary isn t that important to me. They never forgot that. No what makes Summers-watching such an irresistible sport - albeit a morbid one rather like auto racing fans who attend to see crashes - is not seeing him put his foot in his mouth it s wondering how he ll manage to get the other foot in there with it. To be fair during his three years as Harvard President Summers an economist by profession has instituted what I believe to be important financial reforms championed the cause of undergraduate education and begun plans for an ambitious third campus between the existing main campus and the medical school site. But prior to becoming president of Harvard he endorsed an internal World Bank memo suggesting that the US should move its worst-polluting industries to developing countries who would be more inclined to accept them because they need to boost their economies. As president he denounced as anti-Semitic a movement that seeks to have institutions like Harvard divest themselves of investments in Israel because of that nation s treatment of the Palestinians. And he alienated a renowned black professor who promptly decamped to Princeton - a departure that destabilized Harvard s once excellent .
