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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...
...these are moot points in comparison to the final flaw of the book, and the truly fatal flaw in the current Democratic leadership: vacillation and foolishness on the War in Iraq...
...said Vanessa Gulati, the group’s spokeswoman. “You don’t need to remind people of this incident,” said Riley, of BU. “You need to remind them of the consequences, and they can be fatal.” In 2000, Jason Sibert, 23, was killed after a car struck him while crossing Memorial Drive near the BU bridge. The large BU community, and their smaller Ivy League neighbor across the river, should both draw lessons about pedestrian safety from the incident, Riley said. He said...
...dangerous obsession for a party in peacetime. In time of war, it could be fatal...
...there is no holding one's own against a fatal IED attack. It comes in a blast of dust and fire and, in an instant on Sept. 12, all of that exquisite training, and all of that irrepressible vitality, was stilled...