Word: havoc
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...trend to specialize and now sub-specialize ("He only does knees") is playing havoc with emergency medicine, too. How can a neurosurgeon who "only does back surgery" be on call to treat head trauma in an emergency department? General surgeons, right now, are a dying breed; their residency programs have failed to fill for the past few years. As the specialists narrow down and lose competence in their "parent" fields, they will necessarily leave certain patients without needed, basic care. It's a serious problem that calls for a nationwide strategy...
...Neither is the havoc that global warming may be inflicting on the cherry blossoms. This has been the warmest winter on record in Tokyo, and, perhaps not coincidentally, March 20 was also the third-earliest blossoming ever recorded in the capital. Because cherry trees require a period of cold weather in January and February to break their dormancy, Kida worries that if the climate continues to warm, the blossom dates could become even more erratic, or blossoming could even cease altogether. That would certainly drive home the reality of global warming for ordinary Japanese. "Rising sea levels and a depleting...
...Spanish government just last year passed a law that includes such things as exhuming mass graves. This has been very hotly debated in Spain, some saying that this picks at scabs and opens up old wounds,” he says. The Spanish Civil War wrought havoc on civilian lives, but the current conflict, according to Epps, has been able to be largely ignored by America at large.“Life has hardly been disrupted [by the Iraq War],” he says. “Life at Harvard goes on, and we go to our classes...
...easier than turning him down, only to experience the anger that is sure to follow. Virginity is on the line every time having sex seems like a small price to pay for a seeming solution to all of the “guy problems” that have wrecked havoc on your life ever since the first time you noticed boys on the playground and decided to join them as the Pink Ranger...
...comedian Dave Chapelle wrought comic havoc by creating a fictional blind African-American who supports the Klu Klux Klan, unaware of his own blackness. But Farid Smahi is not a comedian, nor is he blind, although he does confound a stereotype: The son of Algerian parents and a longtime victim of anti-immigrant prejudice, Smahi is a candidate in France's forthcoming legislative election - for the anti-immigrant National Front of Jean-Marie...