Word: doctor
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...they may be the same age. Analysis may help settle whether a cataclysmic event such as a volcano or a large asteroid caused the extinction, but results will not be known for at least six months. The scientists were tipped off to the find by Vikas Amte, a local doctor. Regardless of whether the eggs hold the answer or not, Amte said the area where they were found should be cordoned off to protect it. "It should be converted in a Jurassic Park...
That's why doctors and nurses are starting to prescribe reading to babies along with regular checkups and vaccinations. Recently I went to Georgetown University's Medical Center with Maurice Sendak, the renowned children's author and illustrator. His book Where the Wild Things Are was one of Chelsea's--and Bill's--favorites. Mr. Sendak read the story to children, and I announced, along with representatives of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, a national campaign to put books in the hands of parents who bring their young children...
Laurel G. Rayburn '00 said she was given excellent care on one overnight stay, but was disturbed by another visit in which a doctor botched an attempt to take her pulse...
...doctor said my pulse was 45," Rayburn said in disbelief. "It was more like 65. She was wrong...
...years later, Bettelheim loftily informed Pollak that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his Medea-like mother was wholly to blame for Stephen's emotional ills and, quite falsely, that the brother had committed suicide. No wonder Pollak left that encounter mentally comparing Bettelheim to "the evil Doctor Sivana, arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel...