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...same situation pertains in 10 a.m. classes too. For the exhausted victim, catching up afterwards by reviewing material on the course website or borrowing someone else's notes means a double investment of time. Starting the lecture schedule later in the morning would not solve anything; it would just prolong the day at the other end, unless Harvard drastically reduced its course-offerings. But who would want to study at a university with a crippled syllabus of over-subscribed courses...
Bruce got out of the hospital in late March. Immediately, he and his family got busy--planning for his death. Dialysis might prolong his life, but Bruce adamantly refuses it. "Lying down for four straight hours three times a week with needles stuck in me to filter my blood--that's not the kind of life I want," he says. His doctors, some of whom initially protested his decision, gave him a week, a month tops. He said it felt good, even empowering, to tell his doctors what the next step would be, rather than the other way around--even...
...American lives," he was ruefully noting the early rise and fall of celebrated people. In this young country, success was a young man's game, and so was failure. But today's Americans might take Fitzgerald's jeremiad as a compliment: there are no second acts because we prolong the first act forever; we work and play hard to extend adolescence for another 40, 50 years. It's hard work, consuming all that wheat germ and Viagra, but it's worth it to stay tan, teen and terrific. Besides, the alternative is so nonattractive. To be old in America...
...developed countries like the U.S. Less than half the people in the area have access to clean water, and just over half of all children are vaccinated against diphtheria, polio and tetanus. The notion that African countries can somehow buy and distribute the expensive drugs that can prolong life for those infected with HIV--even at the drastically subsidized rates that some companies have promised--is farfetched. Beyond that, the illness and death of so many workers is draining what little strength these already weak economies have...
...Extenstion: How to prolong writer's block...