Word: england
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...university's study (the biggest of its kind so far), published Sept. 23 in PLoS One, the online scientific journal of the U.S. Public Library of Science, scientists analyzed close to 300,000 patients admitted to state-run hospitals across England on those two Wednesdays from 2000 to 2008. The health of the patients, who were split evenly between the July and August admission days, was tracked for a week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven-day period, when researchers controlled for the patients' age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems...
...their situation, and give it back to them... that can be a very meaningful experience.”Although Armitage has demonstrated a serious commitment to performing his poetry both internationally and within the UK—next year he plans on busking his way through the north of England in the style of an itinerant minstrel—he still thinks of his poems as primarily textual experiences. “By and large, I write for the page, for the inner eye and the inner ear,” he says. And despite the meticulous research that goes...
...soldier’s war crimes, or seriously questioning the tactics of the Israeli army, the point is, it triggers a consideration of these topics. “Artists always have their own point of view and angles,” says the Consul General of Israel to New England, Nadav Tamir, who co-sponsored the screening at the HFA. “You can’t ask them to speak for a national narrative. It’s always their story. And they play an important role in society in raising questions.” Using...
...Engineered a coalition of groups that successfully prevented the New England Patriots from moving their stadium from Foxboro, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., in the late 1990s...
...there ever been a time when you think religious people got the balance right by engaging without becoming entangled? Yes. What happened in 18th and 19th century England, with the Wesley Movement and with William Wilberforce, was ideal. Wilberforce and others formed hundreds of small societies for improving human welfare, preventing cruelty to animals, reforming poorhouses and prisons. And there were great Christian leaders in politics as well. In that period, Christians were not divided by political parties...