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...She’s just been a great role model,” Paolucci said. “Our girls at the high school team are really proud of her. As a coach, you can’t ask for anything more...
...force ourselves on these ranch areas. We're there because people ask us if we'd like to train there," said Colonel Neil Hutton, head of the British training program in Kenya. "As it turns out, it's a good deal for everybody. We don't come knocking on their doors, bullying them. It's very much a relationship." (Read "How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers...
...even conform to the same rules for color-coding wires in a heart device, making it awfully hard for an intensive-care technician to do repairs if something goes wrong. "When there's a complication at 2 in the morning," he says, "too often nurses can't ask, 'What's his problem?' until they ask, 'Whose is he?'" (Read "Drive-Thru Medical: Retail Health Clinics' Good Marks...
...matter how insignificant you are in the [publishing] organization, people will ask you how they can get their book published,” he said. “[I found out that] you had to very quickly pretend you know what you’re talking about... to have this type of authority to give this person an answer to get him off your back...
...Last week the Philippine health authorities began distributing the antibiotic doxycycline in flooded communities, a procedure recommended by the WHO. Plans are now being readied for a large-scale spraying of saltwater into still-flooded areas to kill the leptospirosis bacterium, which only lives in freshwater. The timing to ask for help from the global health authorities - as well as other decisions such as the distributing of antibiotics and the saltwater spraying - were "judgment" calls, says Tayag...