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...Germany at any crossing "immediately." Suddenly Jager, 48, held in his hands the fate of thousands of people--as well as that of the Wall he had so faithfully watched over for all 28 years of its existence. His orders were to turn the protesters back unless they had proper documents, but he knew that attempting to do so would result in bloodshed. So, as recounted in The Wall: The People's Story, shortly after 11 p.m. Jager told his men at the gates to "open them all." By dawn, an estimated 100,000 delirious East Germans had slipped past...
...spend time with the Devil Docs, the military's nickname for a group of physicians who set up a groundbreaking approach to battlefield medical care called the Forward Resuscitative Surgical Suite. The idea is to provide real surgery at the front lines during the so-called golden hour, when proper treatment gives wounded soldiers the best chance of recovery...
...therefore fully support Dean Kirby’s call for a fuller discussion of alternatives to pre-registration as a mechanism for meeting our educational responsibilities. The goal should be mechanisms that will allow course staff to be appointed well in advance, both to ensure proper preparation and training, and to provide an adequate horizon for academic planning by graduate students. Any proposed solution to this problem will almost certainly involve the prediction of course enrollments. The more accurately those predictions can be made, the less likely we will be faced with a choice between capping course enrollments or abandoning...
...city could be stigmatized as an epidemiological hot zone. Last Friday, Hong Kong's Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong pleaded for calm. "Words like 'Hong Kong has been quarantined' are detrimental to Hong Kong," he said. But if the disease keeps spreading, figuring out the proper spin on an outbreak should be the least of anyone's concerns...
...staid 1950s and futuristic 1960s looks; geometric designs in black and white; and the very timely military look. So who won the latest bout? Here's one judge's scorecard. 1950s In the biggest trend for fall, Milan reigned supreme. Miuccia Prada went back to that prim and proper decade with boatneck coats and dresses, pencil skirts and crocodile bags and gloves. But her coats were made of men's fabrics and her gloves were oversized and fit for gardening - forcing everyone to rethink what ladylike means. Stella McCartney tried the same idea at her Paris show, but with...