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...UC’s bill requires workers to obtain a badge from building managers before entering any dormitory. The badge, which “shall be displayed prominently,” will help students to differentiate between dangerous intruders and benign maintenance workers. This legislation wisely addresses the problem of plainclothes contractors who, unlike the uniformed Facilities Maintenance Operations workers and UNICCO janitors, often carry no form of identification. Though seemingly harmless, the gravity of this security risk became clear last October, when a convicted rapist was found roaming the halls of Mather House, posing as a fire-door inspector...
...going into [the Taliban's] yard," says Brigadier General Fraser, who commanded the Mechanized Brigade Group in Edmonton, Alta., before his assignment to Afghanistan. "We're going to start kicking them." Those were unfamiliar messages for Canadians accustomed to seeing themselves in the post-cold war world as benign peacekeepers. And it has enraged critics who say the Afghan enterprise was wrongheaded from the start. "Trying to stabilize an environment like Afghanistan isn't doable in a war-fighting situation," says Peggy Mason of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Ottawa. "The government has to explain right...
...appendicitis but also to provide an alternative diagnosis that could explain the symptoms,” said Pedrosa. “That actually includes some patients in whom we did recognize other sources of abdominal pain that require surgical treatment, like for example ovarian torsion and recognize degenerative fibroids, benign tumors in the uterus.” The researchers conducted the study on 51 pregnant women who came to the hospital to get catscans by also offering them free MRIs. According to Deborah Levine, assistant professor at HMS and an author of the study, the use of MRIs on pregnant...
...piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...
...things being equal, atrial fibrillation is a relatively benign condition as long as it can be controlled. Indeed, says Dr. Calvin Weisberger, a regional chief of cardiology for Kaiser Permanente, about 8% to 10% of people over age 80 have a history of atrial fibrillation. Mr. Whittington's atrial fibrillation could be due to his age, the stress of the accident, or the biochemical response of the heart to the pellet...