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...together this weekend, my daughter and I, as I read Twilight for the first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety. Suffice it to say, it's like nothing...
...best advocates for patients diagnosed with asthma are the patients themselves, says Aaron. If you suspect that you may have been misdiagnosed, ask your doctor to run some pulmonary tests or pursue a different course of treatment. As Aaron says, "The danger of misdiagnosis is that it's a missed opportunity to figure out what's truly wrong with the patient...
...take a lot of work to get a very small distance,” he said. City Councilor Craig Kelley added that he thought Cambridge streets might not be safe enough to support such a program. At the beginning of the meeting, several residents had remarked on the danger of biking in the city. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showlands@fas.harvard.edu...
This inconvenience is slowly turning into a legitimate danger; about 27.1 percent of the nation’s 590,750 bridges are rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be either “functionally obsolete” or “structurally deficient.” The rating of “structurally deficient” is the same rating that was given to the I-35W Bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minnesota in 2007, and while not every bridge receiving that rating is in danger of imminent structural failure, the large number...
...this begs the question, then, of what the Dalai Lama hopes to achieve with this week's congress in Dharamsala, which continues until Saturday and which he won't attend until its close. Tibetologists and other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier...