Word: hidden
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...University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...
Califf thought that such "hidden" information would be easier to find if studies were done on enormous groups of patients...
There is no denying that the novel leaves us with an unpleasant impression of the court, a secret and hidden organization moving along at a slow pace with each procedure being delayed by bureaucracy, hiring incompetent and often corrupt employees and mistreating them. Yet there is a contrast that clearly emerges between K. and anyone associated with the court. The court employees and lawyers tend generally to be poor, unhappy or sickly. K., on the other hand, is well off, holds a prestigious job at a bank, is confident of his abilities and generally pleased with his own behavior. Invited...
This seems an unsatisfactory pairing ofopposites; surely it is not enough to save poetryfrom the theorists if one immediately turns itover to the greeting-card industry. Koch'saversion to the New Critical attitude that thelinguistic surfaces of poems necessarily mask a"hidden meaning" is well-founded--and there is noreason to think that Koch himself would sell theMuses to Hallmark if given the chance--but iftaken too far in the direction Koch's attitudesuggests, it jeopardizes any continuingintellectual interest in poetry at all.Meaning, too, has its claims...
Change is on the way for Quad Sound Studios. Hidden beneath the Holmes wing of Pforzheimer House, the underground studio where the music of aspiring performing artists flows through pipes inside the walls may soon have new equipment thanks to the efforts of sound studio engineers...