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Assefaw is an avid student of U.S. Army Medical Corps practices during the Viet Nam War. "The Americans had helicopters, of course, and we don't," he says. "But we still manage to get casualties from the field to surgery in twelve hours, compared with eight hours for the Americans in Viet Nam. And of the casualties who make it to a hospital, our mortality rate is 25 per 1,000, compared with 20 per 1,000 for the Americans...
...examine a polar extreme--the hypothetical legislator becomes an avid patron of pornographic materials. The protection of pornography makes his life more 'pleasant.' He has unlimited access to whatever his eyes desire. He's glad the hypothetical veil gave him the 'right' to look at dirty pictures...
...Shepard's voice has often seemed querulous or cruelly funny. Even as he was attracting an avid following as perhaps America's foremost active playwright, critics sensed in his plays a compulsive urge toward violence, a lack of compassion, a reveling in the bizarre. His comic scenes made viewers wonder whether he was laughing with or at his characters. His work has shifted from expressionist flights of fancy to a kind of grim, weird naturalism and has tended more and more to portray families as the poisoned wellspring of human evil. He has brought to life the same fumbling, feckless...
...make our nation's No. 1 the University's also. The rationale for giving Prince Charles the limelight might well have been the same as the no-degree ruling: the attempt to avert protest from general dislike of Reagan. But the University must take the Harvard Community for avid readers of People, if it thinks it can wow the crowds into forgetting the symbolism of a historic moment...
...classics starring Marilyn Monroe and Tyrone Power. Murdoch will probably broadcast the programs on his TV stations in Australia, Europe and the U.S. Davis made about $300 million on his investment in Fox, which he bought in 1981. That could now be just the start of something bigger. An avid Hollywood partygoer, Davis has no desire to say ciao to Tinseltown. Industry observers are predicting that he will soon announce another entertainment venture, possibly the purchase of the Warner Bros. studio...