Presenting Science with Impact: Presentation Skills for Scientists, Medical Researchers & Health Care Professionals

PRESENTING SCIENCE WITH IMPACT: PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR SCIENTISTS, MEDICAL RESEARCHERS & HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Cindy Todoroff. 112 pp. Illust. Trifolium Books Inc., Toronto, 1997. Can $16.95. ISBN 1-895579-87-2

Like many of you, I have sat through numerous educationrelated and scientific talks that do more to cure insomnia than to communicate information. For this reason, I began providing learning experiences for medical students on how to give a lecture. A small group session on the principles is followed by videotaping the students giving short lectures. As a group, we critique the lectures in a positive, nonthreatening manner. The students' response has been …

Dixon's mistake helps Hunter-Reay to victory

Ryan Hunter-Reay figured the luck had to go his way eventually.

Turns out Sunday was the day.

Hunter-Reay got the opening he needed to earn his first IndyCar Series victory when Scott Dixon made an uncharacteristic mistake, ending his bid for a fourth straight victory on the road course at Watkins Glen International.

Preparing to make a run at leader Darren Manning after a long caution period, Dixon spun out under yellow and was hit from behind by contender Ryan Briscoe. That gave the runner-up spot to Hunter-Reay, who easily passed Manning on the ensuing restart and drove away with the fourth series win for Rahal Letterman Racing and first since …

New federal student loan terms take effect

Changes in the federal student aid program will lessen interestrates for some students while increasing the amount they can borrow.

Among the biggest changes that went into effect Tuesday, theinterest rate on new, subsidized Stafford loans to undergraduatesdrops from 6.8 percent to 6 percent. Subsidized Stafford loans areawarded to lower-income students, and the government picks upinterest payments while students are still in school.

The rates are slated to continue to decline in stages over thenext five years, part of congressional measures approved last yearto increase student aid.

Earlier this year, responding to the credit crunch, Congress alsoapproved …

NUMBERS Game

Revenue targets

When it conies to auditing suspected evaders, the Canada Revenue Agency makes few distinctions. CRA campaigns have targeted individuals, businesses large and small and professions ranging from corporate types to hairdressers and waiters.

1 Thickness in inches of the industry association file reportedly documenting the bankruptcies of BC hair salons following Revenue Canada's campaign to collect long-forgotten Employment Insurance taxes in 1997.

20 Estimated percentage of foreign transactions that Canadian firms hid from federal tax authorities in 1996. Revenue Canada responds by boosting the number of international tax avoidance auditors from 112 to …

50 years later, Maz & Bucs relive historic win

PITTSBURGH (AP) — For one shining day, Bill Mazeroski and the Pittsburgh Pirates were going like '60 again.

The ballpark was missing. So were the New York Yankees, not that they were needed. Mazeroski and nearly a dozen former Pirates teammates were there, reliving the vivid memories of the day that stands above all others in Pirates history.

Several thousand Pirates rooters gathered Wednesday at the spot where Forbes Field stood on Oct. 13, 1960, the day Mazeroski's historic homer in the ninth inning gave the underdog Pirates a 10-9 victory over the Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series.

That come-from-behind victory over the Mickey Mantle-led Yankees — the Pirates …

Green, Hart still competing to be England's No. 1

With nearly two weeks to go before the World Cup, England coach Fabio Capello seemingly has no idea who will be his first-choice goalkeeper.

Robert Green, who played the first half in England's 3-1 win over Mexico and made two close-range saves, said not knowing has sparked a "healthy" competition between him, Joe Hart and David James.

"In international football, chances don't come along very often," Green said after making his 10th England appearance on Monday. "We're all in the running and it shouldn't be any other way. ... It's something that's healthy where we keep pushing each other."

Hart, who was on loan at …

Volunteer duo truly connected

James Banks couldn't beat Casey Clausen.

So, he joined him.

When Banks couldn't win Tennessee's starting quarterback job awayfrom Clausen, the 6-foot-3, 200-pound sophomore switched to widereceiver and instantly became the Volunteers' top target.

Just ask Coach Philip Fulmer.

"I'm really pleased with the start he had," said Fulmer, afterwatching Banks catch a team-high seven passes for 80 yards and atouchdown in Tennessee's 24-6 win over Fresno State last Saturday.

"Hopefully, he's one of the guys who will continue to improve aswe go along. He competed hard and he blocked. He was very unselfishas far as getting in there and doing the dirty work. I …