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Thousands of years ago, doctors used alcohol in prescriptions for everything from chronic cough to anxiety. But modern medicine discovered that alcohol is responsible for at least 12 different major ailments, from gastrointestinal bleeding to brain damage. Besides, 30% of long-term users also become alcohol dependent. Edward H. Jeon, M.D., WEST HILLS, CALIF...
While the Medieval era is called the Dark Ages by some scholars, one Harvard professor is making the Middle Ages modern. Michael McCormick, professor of History 1101: “Medieval Europe,” is known for his talent of engaging students with largely unpublished information about Medieval Europe. But McCormick has found yet another way to make his class stand out: by offering Skype office hours every Monday from 10-11 p.m. Skype, a software program that enables users to make phone calls over the Internet and communicate via instant messaging, is a popular program that many college...
...mean a personal code of right conduct, That notion of honor is foreign to the Latin word.”Although Schafer offered a few suggestions, the Air Force Academy did not take any of them.Graduate student Justin C. Lake said he too has struggled to translate modern English words into august Latin phrases.Lake received an e-mail from a major at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, asking him to translate the motto “chaos under control” into Latin.“I sent up three to them, and they actually picked my least...
...title character Penelope Wilhern, played by Christina Ricci, seems to have it all. As the daughter of blue-blood aristocrats, she has money, charm, and a horde of suitors flocking to her door. Oh yeah, she also has a pig nose. “Penelope” is a modern-day fairy tale in an image-obsessed world that actually teaches girls to love themselves the way they are. Penelope is heir not only to the family fortune, but to the family curse, as well, doomed to sport a pig nose until she finds true love. To hide her daughter?...
...Line: Chavez, who considers himself the modern heir of South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar, still likes to wear his red army beret. But according to a recent Chavez biography, he once told a U.S. diplomat that for all his bellicose rhetoric, "I know where the red line is. And I'm not going to cross that line - I just go up to that little edge." He demonstrated some sense of the limits on his power by conceding defeat in the referendum last year when critics had widely expected him to reject it and cross...