Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family physician who often knew as much about his patient as he did about an illness. Today, Americans get far better medical care than ever before; as for the rest, they are often lucky to get as much as a hurried smile. The result is a troubling paradox: at a time when medical skill has reached new pinnacles, the doctor-patient relationship has badly deteriorated. It is a situation that both irritates the patient and worries the medical profession...
...enduring paradox of the Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost...
Layzer's theory also helps resolve what is known as Olber's Paradox on the night- time...
Previous attempts to resolve the paradox, Layzer said, focused on present conditions in the universe. Some concluded that stars were rapidly receding from the earth and that light was shifted into an invisible part of the spectrum. Others argued that stars have only a limited life-time and that, at a given moment, only a small number will emit visible light...
...Christian paradox that Protestants and Roman Catholics, separated in worship, are coming together quite naturally at the level where doctrine and theology are studied. Manhattan's Protestant Union Theological Seminary and Jesuit-run Fordham University are about to take the next ecumenical step forward by creating what may grow into a common graduate program in theology. Beginning in September, the two institutions will share libraries and accept each other's credits for graduate degrees; each school, moreover, will list in its catalogue five courses available at the other institution. As a start to ward an exchange of professors...