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Still, many doctors, like Binckley's, fail to spot the potentially fatal problem in an older person because they're not looking for it. And in a country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...
...read with great interest in the Oct. 19 Crimson (“A Scientific Problem,” editorial) support for the elimination of my course “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives” from the core because it “fail[s] to provide basic scientific literacy.” Fascinating—especially given that I specifically designed the course to teach key scientific concepts in geology and biology, and the processes of scientific discovery! Perhaps it was a mistake to capitalize on the broad interest in dinosaurs to achieve these goals...
...What both Bush and Friedman fail to see is that the catastrophe created by the U.S. invasion is a product of Iraq's own history, culture and composition, and experience of previous invasions - and of the failure of the U.S. leadership to grasp those specifics. It has nothing to do with American experiences elsewhere, and in fact continuing to view events there through the Vietnam prism may have actually contributed to the problem...
...here. This style creates captivating suspense and intrigue at times in both films; but unlike in “Memento,” where out-of-sequence scenes build up to a revelatory conclusion, in “The Prestige,” Nolan intertwines too many strings that fail to form a coherent pattern...
...TIME: And if they fail...