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Pain is one of the most common reasons that people end up in the doctor's office. And yet, until 1983, the field of pain management did not have its own medical society; today, the specialty still isn't widely taught in medical schools. For centuries, doctors even debated whether eliminating pain was morally acceptable: would it, for instance, defeat God's purpose in condemning Eve's daughters to suffer in childbirth...
...there any moments that stick in your head as really key advancements Norris and Gettler made to propel the field of forensic medicine? Gettler did the first work that allowed scientists to tell that a person had been intoxicated at time of death. He designed not only the test but had to build the equipment himself. The guy was amazing. The first work proving that lead in gasoline was dangerous to the rest of us - they did that. The first work proving that if you intake radium your bones are radioactive for many years after you're dead - they...
...complicate matters, the VES film program is not structured to channel students directly into the industry. Because the Film/Video field teaches film as a concentration within the liberal arts, the methodology of the Harvard film program often varies wildly from how film is taught in undergraduate film schools such as the ones at New York University, the University of Southern California and the University of Califonia in Los Angeles...
...vote. "Term limits sever from time to time the natural comfortable tie between members and special interests in their district. They bring government closer to the people and improve citizen access to the process," says Philip Blumel, president of U.S. Term Limits, the largest advocacy group in the field. (See "Washington's Time for Bipartisanship: Retirement...
...last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where thousands of conservative activists packed into a cavernous Washington hotel, the mood was bright and the confidence overflowing. Veteran operatives, grizzled reporters and scores of young political field troops joining the fray for the first time all saw the same thing during three days of bold body language and zinging speeches: that the right, only recently declared to be on its last legs, is on the march. There was a buoyant certainty among the faithful that President Obama will score no major legislative victories in 2010, that Republicans will rout...