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...minutes after a chilly dawn at Pretoria's Central Prison, five men stepped up to five gallows, accompanied only by a hangman, a physician and a prison official. At a signal from the official, the hangman pulled a single lever, springing five trapdoors. Church bells tolled in the black ghetto of Soweto 40 miles away, while cries of anguish and indignation reverberated around the world...
...good physician must be able to inspire hope as well as be a man or woman of medicine. These abilities are best learned from a strong dose of the liberal arts. Anton Chekhov, a doctor who was also a master of the short story, once said, "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other...
...even open a door for me anymore." Ever since the mission earn selection was announced 14 months ago, Ride and her crewmates have spent most of their waking hours together. The fifth member of the group, Norman Thagard, 39, another mission specialist, was added only last December. As a physician, he will investigate a nagging difficulty of space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days of weightlessness. The Challenger team members share an office at the Johnson Space Center. They practice endlessly in the shuttle...
Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...
...case stems from a Dec. 9, 1979, segment on 60 Minutes titled "It's No Accident" about faked injuries from automobile mishaps. Rather's narrative charged wide collusion among doctors and lawyers, but cited only one physician by name. A 60 Minutes investigator obtained a phony medical report at a clinic; Rather held up the report and said, on air, "It was signed by Carl A. Galloway, M.D." Among the estimated 40 million people watching was Galloway, a Los Angeles internist and a distant relative of the clinic's owner. Galloway informed CBS that he had left...