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...gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb can dispatch a burn team to Landstuhl to bring the soldier back to the Army's specialized facility in Texas. "He's here 24 hours after being wounded," he says with amazement. Landstuhl is now a crucial stop-off point, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Room | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...villagers as one of Mao's famous "barefoot doctors." At night, he listened to Voice of America on a small radio, studied an English dictionary and hoped for something better. "When you have a job in the Gobi with absolutely no hope and no future, you learn to be patient," Shan says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barefoot Banker Strikes Gold | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...agency implied by the previous spirited rocking-out: “I only want to be attractive ‘coz I want to attract you/and I wish I were thin/goddamn this body, so fat and crude/and I wish I were witty and I want to be cultured and patient...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Music: Sweetheart | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...fact, Fitzpatrick was among the final Dunsterites sent to the sidelines, but the impact of his draft-bound throwing arm was limited by the patient approach employed by the freshmen...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skaters Move from Ice to Court | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

What is the explanation? Every situation of extreme poverty around the world contains some of its own unique causes, which need to be diagnosed just as a doctor would a patient. For example, Africa is burdened with malaria like no other part of the world, simply because it is unlucky in providing the perfect conditions for that disease: high temperatures, plenty of breeding sites and particular species of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that prefer to bite humans rather than cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Poverty | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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