Word: doctors
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...Boston Globe reported that a doctor at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary allegedly altered the course of his trials on an experimental eye ointment while he owned stock in the company that was set to manufacture the prospective drug...
...child spent time in the Good Shepherd Orphanage before being adopted. For her the orphanage was not a horror house but the dearest refuge, where she had a half-dozen close friends her age, and which she recalls so fondly that after her marriage to a nice doctor, Carlos (Fernando Cayo), she persuades him that they should buy the place and make it their home...
...Period is absolutely not commensurate to policies under which blacks and whites were not allowed to marry one another, not even have interracial sexual relations. Even if, as Counter asserts, Harvard is a “racist community,” it is not apartheid South Africa. The good doctor is grasping, indeed, and not for the first time...
...Exile and alienation are recurring themes in the work - and life - of the London-based, Nigerian-born author. His father, the son of a Nigerian witch doctor, "ran away and was raised by missionaries," says Afolabi, and later became a diplomat. While the family bounced around everywhere from Canada to the Congo, Afolabi was dispatched to boarding school in the U.K. On his childhood trips abroad, Afolabi's status as the son of a diplomat didn't prevent him from being treated roughly at certain borders. "I have always been astonished and angered,"he says, "by the fact that some...
Meanwhile Hosseini was growing up in Californian splendor. He learned English, went to high school and college, became a doctor. Audiences at Hosseini's readings are sometimes surprised at how American he looks. He's clean-shaven and handsome--at 42 he bears a passing resemblance to Antonio Banderas. He speaks English with only a slight accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater...