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...going to use up the whole book. You'll never get to talk." He attributes his historically lukewarm critical reception to this anti-character prejudice (and to his stubborn refusal to use semicolons). Basically, he doesn't care. He wants to talk, and he wants his voice to be heard...
...heard the expression by many people that Harvard is a good place to be coming from,"Chilton says. "I know a handful of people who have had may exact position in this exact wing [of the Anthropology Department] and they are now in good positions...
...procedures, some American doctors have adopted, and adapted, his work. Chief among them is Dr. Patrick McCarthy of the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, who has done the most extensive testing of the procedure. He has performed close to 60 operations since April 1996. "When I first heard about this procedure, I had to go see it for myself, it sounded so improbable," he says. "But after a few days in Curitiba, we were ready to start trying it out in Cleveland...
...Because many of Batista's patients do not have phones and come from all areas of Brazil, he has done little to track the long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard of this procedure, I thought he was a crank, one of those mystic doctors who periodically appear in Brazil," says Roberto Franken, a Sao Paulo cardiologist who has only recently accepted Batista's procedure. Critics do not bother Batista, though, because he believes so strongly in what he is doing...
People who live inside the world's many war zones, from Afghanistan to Rwanda, may never have heard of New York or Paris, but they are likely to know of a town in northern India called Jaipur. Jaipur is famous in strife-torn areas as the birthplace of an extraordinary prosthesis, or artificial limb, known as the Jaipur foot, that has revolutionized life for millions of land-mine amputees...