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...drywall, frame houses, work with horses and repair trucks and cars. By age 60, we are so beat up that eating biscuits and gravy is like consuming the elixir of the gods. Bill Crookham Caldwell, Idaho, U.S. It was nice to have advice on a healthy lifestyle from a doctor with a paunch, but it surely convinces no one but him that being a little overweight is a good thing. Kevin Holland Westville, South Africa Dr. Weil's thoughtful suggestions can easily be implemented without unrealistic changes to the average lifestyle. But it is surprising that he didn't mention...
...President Ghazi al-Yawar, whose base is among tribal leaders; Deputy Prime Minister Abd Mutlaq al-Juburi, a former Baathist general under Saddam; Ala Makki, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Iraqi Islamic party, the largest Sunni political group; Dr. Hatem al-Mukhlis, a secular New York-based doctor and ally of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; and Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi, a secularist tribal leader and expert on petroleum...
...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...
...antibiotic prescribing, especially for respiratory infections.” However, the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday, shows that pediatricians are still prescribing antibiotics to patients who do not need them. “Approximately half of children who come to the doctor for sore throat get an antibiotic, and that is higher than we would expect need an antibiotic,” said Jonathan A. Finkelstein, associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, who is the study’s senior author. He collaborated on the project with Jeffrey...
MOBY, pioneering electronic musician: I have a friend whose Swedish mother--she's in her mid-60s--goes online to meet men. I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Canadian doctor she'd encountered online, and I thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night...