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...past, critics have questioned whether students learn the large amount of basic knowledge necessary to become a physician. However, Paul W. Winterton, a second year medical student, says, "Cases lend themselves to learning large amounts of theory...
...push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash in bad loans and increasingly reluctant to lend more money. L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told Congress last week that 1991 is likely to bring the failure of 180 banks with total assets of $70 billion. That would reduce the FDIC fund, which insures bank deposits, from an already weak $9 billion...
...just the cast and the sound track that are so familiar. Once again, the U.S. is trying to reconcile two qualities that lend themselves to generous interpretation: the internationalist ideal that drives its foreign policy and the aversion to bloodshed that comes naturally to a humane and democratic people...
...report, Air Force scientists charge its authors with having "biased the entire document" toward proving a link. "Our reviewers are convinced that there is no suggestion that ((electromagnetic fields)) present in the environment induce or promote cancer," the Air Force concludes. "It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...
Still, I chose to stay around for a while and lend support. I heard a couple of speeches and a smattering of applause, but no real commitment from the crowd. Even the hawkish pro-intervention demonstrators in the background seemed to lack real conviction...