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Williams said she felt the outcome of the case would prevent other psychiatrists from attempting such radical treatments. "I think it's helped to establish new guidelines of conduct for them in that profession. And that means my brother didn't die in vain," she said...
Harvard could set up a "Friends of Harvard Sports" fund to encourage across-the-board gifts. Some might say that alums wouldn't donate to such a fund, even in times of crises. But only the most cynical alumni with deep pockets would allow certain hurting sports to die. That would hurt athletics at Harvard and the College as a whole. Athletic department officials and coaches of the big-money teams can push wealthy alums to give to the general good...
...daily newspaper and a physician's journal. But even his medical background couldn't prepare Purvis for the human suffering and starvation he has witnessed in Somalia. "After my first visit, in August, I didn't feel like eating for days," he recalls. "I had never seen someone die before, and there I watched several die. One boy wept over his last brother's body right in the middle of a busy feeding center, and nobody stopped to notice." Well, almost nobody...
...first breakthrough occurred when neurologists realized that damage to the spinal cord continues to progress for about 48 hours after the initial accident. As the first nerve cells die, they release toxins that attack neighboring cells that have managed to survive. Some of these toxins are renegade oxygen molecules, called free radicals, that eat through cell membranes. The ensuing flood of biochemicals destroys even more nerve cells. The devastation spreads from the gray matter at the center of the cord to the white matter that surrounds it. Ironically, the body's response to injury only makes matters worse. The inflammation...
ONCE AGAIN THOUSANDS OF AMERIcan soldiers are donning flak jackets and moving into harm's way on a far-off continent. The soldiers of Operation Restore Hope will be spending Christmas in Somalia, and some may die there. Under the United Nations' aegis but their own flag, they will be conducting an experiment in world order: armed peacemaking, rather than peacekeeping. Anarchy rules in Somalia, and the U.N. has resolved specifically to intervene in a nation's domestic affairs to rescue a civilian population that is dying at the rate of a thousand a day, not just from bullets...