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...China's tendency to overprescribe antibiotics can be traced back to its traditional medical beliefs. "According to Chinese medicine, every single illness has a remedy," says Dr. Lam Tai-pong, an assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. That means Chinese patients are more likely than Westerners to visit the doctor for minor illnesses, and when they go, they are more likely to expect some kind of medication. In addition, most mainland Chinese hospitals lack modern diagnostic resources, leaving doctors unable to tell which bacteria might be causing an infection or whether...
...students—Ellen Chen, Eric Ho, Nour Jallad, Rick Lam, and Ying Zhou—conceived of their plans before the April entry date of the competition, which was sponsored by MIT’s Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS) and open to Cambridge-based designers...
...with the likes of the Beatles--threatened them with guns. The defense called the accusations completely untrue and said the women were just seeking publicity. Spector, who has pleaded not guilty, is free on $1 million bail. But there's little need to worry about him going on the lam: his hair doesn't fit through the door...
...Peebles has never shied away from controversy or charges of radicalism. His later film “Sweetback,” after all, is about a black gigolo who goes on the lam after killing several racist police offers in the defense of a Black Panther Party member...
...were allowed to commemorate a Pope's death. With China's approximately 10 million Catholics united in mourning the Pontiff, the divide between underground and official congregations was blurred. "Underground churches now often work openly in China, and official churches recognize the spiritual authority of the Pope," says Anthony Lam, senior researcher at the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong. The outpouring of grief, he says, "has brought the underground and official churches closer to each other than at any time in 50 years...