Word: clinicism
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...Lanka. Around 1:25 p.m. last Tuesday, Kugenthirasah arrived at the front gate of the Sri Lankan army headquarters in the capital Colombo, produced an identity card, and named an officer she said was her husband. Indicating her bump, she told the guards she was due at the army clinic for a check...
...They had no reason to be suspicious: Tuesday was family day at the clinic and Kugenthirasah had been coming for weeks. A guard offered her a lift. She arrived at the clinic just as the commander of the Sri Lankan army, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, was leaving his nearby office for lunch. Eyewitnesses say Kugenthirasah walked away from the clinic and strode toward Fonseka's heavily guarded convoy. A motorcycle outrider spotted her, says military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Her determined manner, that bump-it didn't look right. The outrider swerved, blocked her path and, when she kept coming...
...prison floor, Hwang demanded that she abort the fetus herself. She refused, so the guard began kicking her in the stomach. Then he beat her and, as her sister screamed, continued beating Kim until she blacked out. When she regained consciousness, she says, she "was taken to a clinic in the camp, and in the most blunt manner, they removed [the fetus] from my body...
...work the system. "As much as we all value fairness, if you think you can get some special attention for someone who's important to you ... I don't know anybody who would not play that card," says Michael McKee, vice chairman of psychology and psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic. But talk to doctors about their experiences and you'll be surprised by how little power they have to bend the system to their will...
...chilly doubleheader split with Penn. Despite receiving arguably its best pitching performances of the season from standout sophomore Shawn Haviland and freshman Adam Cole, Harvard managed to lose a half-game in the standings to Dartmouth. In the long term, nonetheless, Saturday’s pitching clinic proved that for the defending Ivy League champions, long successful as a relentless offensive unit, mound performance can be an area of strength in 2006. “You come out of 15 innings, giving up one run,” said Harvard coach Joe Walsh, “You feel like you?...