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...know that I'm against the limitation on residents' work hours. I do think it's very likely that residents will make fewer mistakes if they're not tired. But the way residents now learn medicine was developed by Sir William Osler at the beginning of the 20th century. It was great back then. Doctors lived in the hospital; that's why they're called residents. Patients also resided in the hospital sometimes for weeks at a time. So everybody got a chance to see interesting patients, interesting pathology. That's not the way it is now. We have...
...assumed the mantle of Mohandas Gandhi after the assassination of her political-dissident husband in 1983. "Cory Aquino's struggle for and success at fortifying constitutional democracy in the Philippines," says Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, "was one of the signal battles in the last quarter of the 20th century...
...lampposts and even Facebook pages with the symbol of her revolution. And when she died, the Philippines and the world were reminded of the exemplary days of courage that she had embodied, the People Power uprising that would become a model for mass revolt at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st...
...Though the West's vulture populations have not been hit as hard, the case of the quickly disappearing vultures is an alarming example of how difficult it can be for animals to find their place in our modern world. The advent of 20th century farming replaced wild herd animals, whose carcasses are the staple diet of vultures around the world, with heavily medicated livestock. Diclofenac, a frequently administered anti-inflammatory veterinary painkiller comparable to ibuprofen, has proven to be particularly deadly to the vultures that ingest it secondhand. Though the birds by design have "very strong stomach fluids" that digest...
...mall - it's still independent and nonmainstream," says indie filmmaker Bong Salaveria. His appointment-only antique store, Vintage Pop, was one of the vanguard establishments of the newly recolonized compound. Salaveria closed it in July - he is about to emigrate to Canada - but Vintage Pop's range of 20th century kitsch, which Salaveria sometimes customized, was emblematic of the kind of thing Cubao X trades in. So was the store's whimsical approach to retailing. Customers grew accustomed to having to make appointments via text message, and falling in love with some item only to be told that it wasn...