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...Indian friends offer several explanations. One says parents steer their children toward respectable, cerebral, indoor activities, such as studying to become a doctor or engineer, and away from the frivolity of playing outdoors. Another says facilities are inadequate and the country lacks a nationwide professional league in any sport. A third avers that athletics simply aren't in the Indian genes. Whatever the reason, this inertia is apparently here to stay...
...rare to see a Chinese doctor blazing such a trail in the surgical field, but Huang has a distinct advantage over American counterparts. China's comparatively lax medical rules mean the safety trials he ran were more cursory than those required in the U.S., where they would typically take up to two years. And the olfactory cells he uses are taken from aborted fetuses, which America's antiabortion lobby would furiously oppose. His follow-up information about former patients remains spotty, and Huang says his bosses have refused to let him share cell samples with other researchers so that they...
...asked Jose Miranda, whose daughter Patricia wrestled on the high school boys' team in Saratoga, Calif. "How about gymnastics? Or volleyball?" He begged her to give it up, even threatened to sue the school to get her off the mat. She wouldn't relent. Jose, a Brazilian-born family doctor, wanted his daughter to concentrate on school; he also feared for her safety. And for him, there was the obvious question. "Why would a woman want to wrestle?" he asked her. "That's not a thing for a woman...
...transcript suggests that Johnson's testimony was not so clear-cut. In his questioning of the doctor, district attorney Mark Hurlbert raised doubts about the number of sperm cells and whether they could have dated from an earlier sexual encounter. And if the prosecution is losing its resolve in the case, it certainly didn't show in Hurlbert's immediate and aggressive appeal to Judge Terry Ruckriegle to set an early trial date. Prosecutors are refusing to comment on rumors that they may drop the case, though the accuser's attorneys went on television to suggest that she might have...
...gingerly embarking. After a scorching debate that enlivened leftist opposition to the Social Democratic?Green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government launched its reform in January. Its controversial centerpiece: a €10 Praxisgebühr, or quarterly fee every patient must pay on the first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs and a stop to reimbursements for eyeglasses and dental prostheses, it has helped...