Word: physicians
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...wife and child battering, for drug abuse, for racial hatred, for crime, for the sense of dread that is "loose in the land." In Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil but a sorrowful litany of flaws, of failures, of mediocre hopes, and of vanity." During the course of his investigation...
Indeed, his breakthroughs have led many to believe he has a mysterious physical edge over other mountaineers. Not so, says Oswald Oelz, a Swiss physician and one of Messner's former climbing partners, who conducted a series of tests on high-altitude climbers in a hypobaric chamber. Messner emerged with results similar to those of an above-average marathon runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously...
Advances in treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy could come even faster, particularly synthesis of the protein ordered by a healthy Duchenne gene. According to David Nathan, physician-in-chief at Boston Children's Hospital, "There is a good chance" that work could be accomplished soon enough to benefit today's patients...
...education, housing and so on. Who on earth believes that a society which will not help the vulnerable in crisis will get around to helping them with chronic problems? What disingenuous nonsense First-trimester abortions are the sole concern of the pregnant woman, under the confidential advice of her physician. Denial of funds is imposition of parenthood. N. W. Patterson Lecturer on Celtic Languages and Literatures
...would be wrong to complain even if Boggs was merely resting; there is ample precedent for players to protect their titles, even when their teams have not already clinched their divisional title, as the Sox had. But Boggs had a hamstring tear so severe that the Red Sox team physician was able to place his thumb through it. Rosenthal offers nothing to support his silly carping that Boggs' injury was less debilitating than those which sidelined three of his teammates during the same series...