Word: ideas
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When it comes to treating pain in children, the medical profession has a checkered history. Until the 1970s, the mistaken idea that babies do not feel pain was widely accepted, and infants undergoing major surgery were often given little or no anesthesia, just drugs to paralyze them temporarily. "The reluctance to use anesthesia was not due to doctors' being mean and nasty," Berde says. "There were real risks. It was an era when some babies did die from anesthesia, especially the ones who were very sick. So if you didn't know how to anesthetize them safely, it was easier...
West advocated the mobilization of racial interest groups to combat racism. He also said that the "color-blind idea hides and conceals what we're up against...
...Freshmen get swept up and think that nothing can hurt them because there's this idea of 'brotherhood,"' she said. "I think that this incident shows that there was some sort of breakdown...
...Kobelski '00 said she vaguely remembered the rumors and did not agree with the idea of forcing students to purchase computers...
...spare a study? TIME's Adam Cohen reports that nobody has bothered to research whether welfare-to-work reforms are working, even as the national initiative's first benchmark deadline approaches. "While the states are boasting about so many people disappearing from their welfare rolls, they have no idea where these people are actually going," says Cohen. "Do they get jobs? Are they ending up in homeless shelters...