That Used to Be Us, written with Michael Mandelbaum, Director of the Foreign Policy program at Johns Hopkins University, the authors assert that the United States no longer leads the world in its ability to innovate and to efficiently create new things and ideas.

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In a study presented last fall at the annual heart association meeting, a team of heart experts from Johns Hopkins University reported evidence that at least 522 lives can be saved annually in the United States and Canada by the widespread placement of automated external defibrillators.

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