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...Protopapas said that though the situation is “not dire,” many researchers have felt frustration with the unresponsiveness of the Hyman’s office to the IIC’s budgetary concerns...
...Mugabe in Harare and declared that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe, but on Tuesday the ANC's influential National Working Committee said there should be no further delay in releasing Zimbabwe's poll results. In a clear rebuff to Mbeki, the ANC's leadership said the situation was "dire, with negative consequences for all of southern Africa...
...spite of the dire need for family physicians throughout the United States, however, American medical students continue to shy away from primary care as a career. Since 1997, the number of medical students entering family medicine residencies has fallen by 50 percent. This year, a two percent increase in family medicine residents was considered by the American Association of Family Physicians to be a triumph. Foreign medical students now fill most of the spaces in family care residencies; this summer, 56 percent of entering primary care residents will be foreign medical students...
...situation has become so dire that now we feel unspeakably wronged when the administration takes away our liquor-filled pacifier. Rather than hurl accusations of depraved indifference and malice at our superiors, however, we ought to relish in our crime. That old prep school watchword, “don’t get caught,” can at last make its triumphant return to Harvard’s campus...
...compete with the tobacco industry for casualties. This month, an audio version of the show, which has shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says, is "all ideas." He also has a new show, Eco-Friendly Jihad, premiering this month in Galway, Ireland, about an environmentalist who becomes so frustrated with the West's inability to cut carbon emissions that she joins al-Qaeda...