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Dominique Lord

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Dominique is an Associate Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research work aims at reducing the negative effects associated with motor vehicle crashes. When he's not developing mathematical and statistical models, he devotes some of his time to blogging about stuff.

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23 Articles, 1 Quick Links, 71 Comments, 5 Diaries, 0 Polls

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       Thursday, September 16, 2010
New research study: A national drug plan could save billions
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A research study published two days ago by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reported that Canadians could save anywhere between 10% and 40% in drug expenditures, which would amount to more than $10 billion nationwide, if a national drug plan was introduced in Canada. Imagine if such a drug plan was introduced in the U.S., how much more would Americans save in drug expenditures?
       Sunday, May 2, 2010
WTF: University professors outsourcing grading to India?
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Yep, we all have heard about how many jobs are now being outsourced outside the U.S.
(1 comments)        Monday, April 26, 2010
Who wants to fill out an infuriating and biased GOP survey?
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To our great surprise, yesterday my wife received a mail-in survey from the RNC. The survey is obviously aimed at finding 'hot button' issues that the GOP can exploit to retake control of the House of Representatives and the Senate this November.
       Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Administrative Professionals Day: Wishing Her a Lot of Good Sex!
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Earlier this week, a colleague of mine volunteered to get a thank-you card, flowers and a gift card for our administrative assistant. Since all the cards were sealed at the local bookstore, he grabbed the first one that seemed to fit the sentiment of gratitude for our administrative assistant.... Fearing a lawsuit and explanations we didn't want to make, we obviously didn't give this thank-you card!
       Monday, April 12, 2010
A night at the movies: Cheering on the wife beating
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I'll never forget how, right after the wife suffered this horrendous beating, a man in the audience shouted something like, "Well deserved!" or "Yeah!" at the screen. I wish I could remember the exact words, but he was definitely showing approval for what had happened.

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