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Farmer says in an e-mail that his Class Day speech will center on “what it means for a young physician to take the red pill,” a reference to the popular movie The Matrix and its hit sequel. In the movie, taking a red pill means abandoning a reassuring fantasy world and throwing oneself into the gritty, disheartening realities of an ongoing war for justice...
...anyone can be said to have taken the red pill in his professional life—to have unflinchingly faced the darkest face of human mortality in an immediate, hands-on confrontation—it is Farmer...
...controversy surfaced this spring at James Madison University in Virginia's historic Shenandoah Valley when a state legislator became outraged that the school's health center was dispensing an emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill. Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall learned that the publicly funded university had prescribed the pill more than 2,000 times since 1995. The pill, which acts by delaying ovulation, preventing fertilization or inhibiting implantation, is in Marshall's view a form of abortion, and he sent a chiding letter to J.M.U. president Linwood Rose and the board of visitors, as the school...
Exercise has enormous health and psychological benefits for older adults. Regular workouts reduce or prevent many age-related illnesses--heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression and even mental decline. "If exercise were a pill, it would be the best-selling medication in the world," says Miriam Nelson, director of Tufts University's Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition...