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...species barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic, and then never threatened us again?not without the discovery of a vaccine or cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just go away...
...Medication is dispensed far too easily these days. In the case of mild disorders, cognitive or behavioral therapy is the appropriate treatment. People need to stop depending on medications to fix all their problems. It is scary to consider the effects that drugs are having on kids and their developing brains. I wish doctors would consider the factors that were raised in your article before they whip out their prescription pads. Kelly Ross Alma...
...patrol has lasted an hour, the three humvees slashing and darting through hairpin turns and blind alleyways, looking for attackers. It's 9 o'clock on a clear, mild December night in Adhamiya, one of Baghdad's oldest neighborhoods and these days among the most restive. The soldiers are out to draw fire. They cruise the streets and make themselves targets in order to flush insurgents into the open...
...people in foreign capitals--in fact, rather enjoys doing so. Maybe I've got a case of seasonal goodwill, but I doubt that things are so crass. Of late, senior Defense Department officials have been acting almost house-trained when traveling overseas: witness Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's mild reaction last month to the European Union's latest plans to set up its own defense organization alongside NATO...
Before this month, mild-mannered Luke B. Hedrick ’05 had never been called “super-delicious...