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...that the shooting wasn't so random, and that the mall provides far more than loyalty cards and a climate-controlled shopping environment. The Metro-Centre has its own sports stadium, its own soccer, rugby and ice hockey teams. Armies of their supporters wearing St. George's crosses - England's national flag - surge from mall to match to trashing immigrant neighborhoods. "Whenever sport plays a big part in people's lives," says an overworked doctor in the local casualty ward, "you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture...
...lived for 45 years. "I just write what I see happening. I'm a weatherman, trying to forecast what's ahead." In the case of Kingdom Come, Ballard had to look no farther than Shepperton, hard by the M25 and Heathrow. "I've seen the southeast of England transformed from a realm of Georgian restorations, Gothic quadrangles and village greens into a world of motorways, surveillance cameras, business parks and vast retail operations. I've seen the proliferation of St. George's flags, as the white middle class retribalizes itself. It's not racist, yet. But we've had waves...
...playing sports and…sharing things within a locker-room – anything from towels or any type of cloth that might be used to wipe sweat off,” he said. Pier also did not rule out the notion–advanced by the New England Journal of Medicine in a 2003 study of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams–that artificial turf fields of the sort recently installed in Harvard Stadium could enhance the likelihood of infection. “If the artificial surfaces are more likely to cause abrasions than...
...first-time mothers are over 40. In the U.K., the number of first-time mothers over 35 has trebled in 15 years. And medical techniques are extending the age at which women can conceive. On July 8, baby J.J. was born by C-section at a hospital in southeast England, weighing 3 kg. His mother, Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, 62 years old at the time, described him as "adorable"; her critics called her "selfish," noting that Rashbrook statistically is unlikely to see her son through university. But even as the age horizon of traditional parenthood expands, many other options...
Roger Johnson first realized his heart was failing during a vacation in Spain five years ago, when his lungs filled with fluid and he struggled to breathe. The 57-year-old general practitioner swiftly flew home to Manchester, England, underwent a triple bypass, had a pacemaker installed and began taking a veritable pharmacopoeia of heart drugs. Today, he can't walk more than a half-mile or work long in his garden. Unless he becomes eligible to join a transplant waiting list, modern medicine other stories...