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...those who see the experience most often and up close: physicians and nurses. Nuland is a surgeon who also teaches the history of medicine at Yale. He has the rare ability -- like John McPhee exploring a geological fault -- to explain the abstruse in language that can be both meticulously exact and wondrously evocative. In a chapter on cancer, for instance, his description of how the cells operate contains this startling analogy: "In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular...
What are the methods the pro-life activists use in advancing their cause? The most common ones are peaceful marches, prayer meetings and candlelight vigils--the exact same methods used by the civil rights movement of the 1950s...
...interview, Brustein said Rich's piece is a politically-correct attempt to exact revenge for an article Brustein wrote two years ago in The New Republic...
Wilson, who has reviewed the study, said he was unable to determine the exact doses given to the children, but said they appeared to be "small...
Clinton is a complex, highly intense man who does almost everything at full throttle. He watches several movies each week -- the White House refuses to release an exact number -- and reads five or six books at once. He relaxes not by watching a basketball game on TV, or reading, or picking up the telephone, or doing crossword puzzles, but doing all four simultaneously, while worrying an unlit cigar. Clinton fights his schedulers for free time every weekend, but then gets jumpy by midday Sunday and is often working in some fashion by Sunday night. Last August, as he was preparing...