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...Other doctors just looked the other way, their military duty overruling the Hippocratic Oath. One at Abu Ghraib intervened to ask guards to stop beating one prisoner's wounded leg and quit hanging him from an injured shoulder. He saw it happen three times. He never reported it. In Mosul, according to Miles, one medic witnessed guards beating a prisoner and burning him by dragging him over hot stones. The prisoner was taken to the hospital, treated and then returned by doctors to his torturers. An investigation into the incidentwas closed because the medic didn't sign the medical record...
...jail for insurrection. His band of men move between mountain hideouts, sleeping in caves. Bugti says he uses "a rock for my pillow." Reached through a satellite phone by Time in his mountain lair, Bugti spoke of how he deals with pain (he is partially paralyzed in one leg), temperatures of 45?C, and the perils of waging a guerrilla war against 26,000 Pakistani soldiers in Baluchistan: "Physical hardship?pain, the extreme heat?this is all a state of mind. You either give into it or not. And I choose...
...last leg, literally. Two years ago, my mother had her leg amputated. She is very, very sick. But these last two years with her have been a century for me in terms of healing, completion, loving. The reason I wrote this book is that I was slapped into urgency to complete my relationship with my own mother. And like every mother and daughter--and maybe more so for us--it was a difficult, challenging relationship...
...Robertson really leg-press 2,000 lbs.? When he was 72? Even though that's nearly 700 lbs. more than some college-record holders can handle without rupturing blood vessels in their eyeballs? The reverend is standing firm on the claim, first made in a promo for his protein shake, although he added last week that he "did it one time, one rep" and moved the ton only a few inches. He also revealed why he got into leg pressing: bad knees...
When Daniel L. Hartl was an undergraduate, one of his professors broke his leg and lay in traction for the rest of the semester. Guest lecturers finished the class, and Hartl calls it one of the best courses of his college experience.Now the Higgins professor of biology, Hartl doesn’t need to break a leg for his students to have a team-taught experience. He is one of four professors of the new Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” Along with its 1a counterpart...