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...poignant essay by Gibbs is an insightful account of a good death. Making it comfortable for the dying person and getting the family, including children, to understand death are experiences which doctors can learn from in caring for their dying patients. Dr. Ee Heok, SINGAPORE...
...doesn’t get you a job if you haven’t networked, and social charm won’t get you ahead if you have no organizational experience. This is the lesson we will learn the hard way once we’ve left Harvard to better serve our country and our kind: We shouldn’t be Brookes or Laurens; we should be Syeshas...
...Optimists will hope that the junta in Burma will learn the lessons of Chernobyl and Mexico City, and realize that they cannot continue as they have before. Realists, sadly, will note how long Burma's rulers have defied the manifest will of their own people, and guess that they will hunker down again. It would be nice if the realists were to be proved wrong. Until then, those within Burma as well as those from afar who genuinely care about its prospects can do little but hope for better, cloudless, days to come...
...think these trends are really profound,” said Councillor Sam Seidel, who is an urban planner. “The city’s composition is changing. We’re now at one-third non-white.” Some councillors were concerned to learn that 40 percent of the children under 18 in Cambridge speak a language other than English at home. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human resources, said that while Cambridge is becoming more diverse, with growing black and Asian populations, the city has few “linguistically-isolated?...
...worked on the same bacterium [as me] made it a good place to go.”While labs in developing countries may have less resources on hand than those in the U.S. or Europe, Clapham says this may actually prove advantageous for budding researchers.“I learned a lot from working in an Argentinian lab as opposed to a North American lab,” Clapham says. “They have many fewer resources than Harvard has, so I had to be more creative.”From the moment her plane touched down, Clapham...