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...side as it deals with that leap, the side we never get to see. We may not be comfortable with the fact, but from many doctors' perspectives the most obvious issues are exhaustion and overwork. Emergency-room patients are dryly referred to as "volumes" because of "the way they fill our fixed space" and because of "the volume of noise that we actually hear ... the crying of the child, the belligerence of drunkenness, the thin whine of a failed suicide." And there is a jaded professionalism in the med-school lesson recalled by Fitzgerald during a long night shift: "Always...
...Dude, There's a Ball in My Iced Tea I think it's funny how Billy Gaines, the founder of Bpong.com, says competitive beer pong is not about alcohol [Aug. 18]. As a college student myself, I know that most students aren't playing to fill their cups with Gatorade. They like the added bonus of getting drunk as part of the competition. Brett Johnson, Santa Cruz, California
...Explaining his vision today, Djukanovic says: "We are a small country. We have no space for mass tourism. We want to use every inch of territory that we have to attract the highest-paying guests. We have the frame; now we want to fill it with a beautiful picture." The development at Tivat is the centerpiece of these ambitions. The plan includes an 800-berth marina, a golf course, a resort village and several hotels. Where an old corrugated-iron warehouse stood, the Four Seasons is building its first resort on the Mediterranean, to open...
...something. "You have to do a bigger variety of difficult skills now," says Conner, who was in the stadium with his wife, the 1976 Olympic champion Nadia Comaneci, to catch the competition. "In our era, you could do one or two difficult moves, then fill out the rest of your routine with things you are comfortable doing. Now you have to be a freak of nature to be able to do a world-class routine." While gymnastics has always been an injury-prone sport, the new hurdles created by the scoring system may be pushing some athletes too far. Peszek...
...also mention some of the painful stories he hears from voters - just as Clinton did. In making his case for an energy rebate, last week Obama pointed to "the mother that had to cut back on groceries because of rising gas prices, the guy I met who couldn't fill up his gas tank to go on a job search." He is also growing more detailed in his policy proposals. The word legislation, hardly found in his early speeches, is now mentioned regularly...