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...cochlear implant is a technological miracle that has restored hearing to thousands of children with severe to profound hearing loss. But according to a study conducted by the FDA and the CDC, children who receive implants are more than 30 times as likely to develop bacterial meningitis infections. These infections, even when treated with antibiotics, are lethal in some 10% of cases...
...almost made you forget it, in the same way he could almost make you forget that he was a towering figure of 20th century journalism. In a career of 43 years at what was then Time Inc., he rose to chairman and CEO of a company that makes a profound and intricate product: journalism. As both a businessman and a journalist, he had an abiding passion that his company should produce to the highest standards...
...during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised bifocal glasses and clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream and theories about the contagious nature of the common cold. He was a pioneer of do-it-yourself civic improvement, launching such schemes as a lending library, volunteer fire corps, insurance association and matching-grant fund raiser. He helped...
When he returned from France to become the sage at the Constitutional Convention, Franklin was not America's most profound political theorist. But he did embody one crucial virtue that was key to the gathering's success: a belief in the nobility of compromise. Throughout his life, one of his mantras had been, "Both sides must part with some of their demands." He used this phrase many times, but never more notably than when the Constitutional Convention became deadlocked on the issue of whether the new Congress should be proportioned by population or have equal votes for each state...
...survive some tough times to emerge a little more grown-up and genuine. Though some hearts get broken and a few life lessons are learned, the script and the HRST’s production never lose their light-hearted touch; despite the allure directors might feel to draw very profound morals from the show, co-directors Maya Anand ’03 and Dan J. Poston ’04 do well to keep the focus on the laughs...