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...overly-cute personal asides. And while there are very few grace-notes (his attempts at flowery descriptive phrases are both unnecessary and square), when he sticks to the facts of his subjects' lives, Eule tells a dramatic tale of the compromises that young doctors (especially women) must make in order to succeed. "No program wanted one of its residents to get pregnant," he writes at one point, rocketing to the heart of the medical training tradition - grueling hours and almost complete devotion to the job. As he writes, many hospitals seem to want to discourage their young doctors from even...
...Higher Education, the venture “is doing brisk business: it sold more than 1,000 German language books in its first month of operation.” Heiko Hees, Managing Director of PediaPress, said that “many people who received books came back and ordered more.” He added that PediaPress’ goal is to create an alternative to the textbook. A 100-page book will cost approximately $8, yet in an age of increased Internet use, many wonder whether this concept will be successful, since Wikipedia can be accessed online free...
...Administration rarely let a day go by without underscoring their commitment to fiscal responsibility - just as soon as they can afford it. "Of course, like every family going through hard times, our country must make tough choices," Obama said on Saturday in his weekly radio address. "In order to pay for the things we need, we cannot waste money on the things...
...Republicans escaped this trap by saying that the White House was talking about Limbaugh in order to avoid talking about Obama's failure to come up with a financial-rescue plan. But now one Limbaugh controversy has been replaced by another. Instead of squabbling with Democrats about him, Republicans are arguing with one another. The subject of the dispute: Does Limbaugh help spread conservatism among Americans or turn them off from it? (Read "Criticizing Rush Limbaugh: Over the Line...
...course of Zapatero's first term, the PP requested that the government answer hundreds of questions about the alleged cover-up, while party leader Mariano Rajoy went so far as to suggest that a key piece of physical evidence - a backpack loaded with explosives - may have been planted in order to lend credence to the Islamist theory. These doubts were fanned by the center-right newspaper El Mundo, and Catholic radio station COPE into a full-fledged conspiracy campaign. Yet even after the country's national court found absolutely no connection between ETA and the Madrid attacks, Rajoy said that...