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...fact, Winters doesn’t just look like a running back, he used to be a running back. Growing up idolizing players like Barry Sanders and Edgerrin James, the Oklahoman spent the first seven years of his football career carrying the ball as a tailback...
...people see it as a lot of pressure and trying to live up to the standards that [Pizzotti and O’Hagan] set,” Winters said. “I would love to have the career that Chris [Pizzotti] had, but we’re different quarterbacks with different styles. I think that takes a little bit of pressure...
...today, but they account for only a third of all doctors; the other two-thirds are specialists. The ratio, say most experts, should be at least 50-50, as it is in countries like Canada. But the number of U.S. medical students opting for primary-care careers has plummeted 52% over the past decade, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Fewer than 10% of the 2008 graduating class of medical students opted for a career in primary care, and only 42% of residency positions for family medicine are being filled today, leaving a deficit of some...
...Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively - a triumph of hope over inexperience - threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama's turbocharged political career. He seems fated to be feted for who he is not (George W. Bush) and who he might turn out to be, but not for things he has actually done. This is dangerous stuff, politically. It almost guarantees disappointment. So the prize presents him with an immediate challenge: How does he go about actually earning it? The foreign policy that Obama favors, patient diplomacy on a multitude of fronts, requires qualities of wisdom, horse-trading...
...Koizumi retired on July 23, ending his 37-year career as a Representative of the Diet, but he missed the last day of the Lower House session because of a traffic...