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...herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs comprise an impressive pharmaceutical arsenal available to the modern doctor. If you’re lucky, you’ll live to be a hundred with perfect teeth and a six-minute mile.Yet such optimistic prognosis is not available to everyone.Take...
...endearing. Journalists are reporting that heroin is usually snorted, and while it's strange that papers are printing cocaine's street price, what's stranger still is that their estimates are all over the place. One paper reported matter-of-factly that cocaine "makes one euphoric and enhances sexual prowess on consumption," and boasted that "one can dance all night long after consuming...
...Inheriting Zarqawi's mantle will be no easy task. His influence extended well beyond the relatively few bloodthirsty fighters he commanded. His willingness to fight on the front lines, his prowess with propaganda tools like Internet videos, and his ability to mobilize massive numbers of suicide bombers had elevated Zarqawi to the level of celebrity. He was successful at directing insurgent attacks against Shi'ites and initiating a controversial plan to sow sectarian strife in Iraq...
...also included remarks by other class marshals, who spoke about their experiences at the traditionally button-down and competitive law school by remembering lighter moments, such as ice cream parties, “broom ball” games at the ice rink, and one particular professor’s prowess on the basketball court. Six of the nine members of the Court that Greenhouse covers attended Harvard Law School including Roberts, the recently appointed chief justice. Responding to Kagan’s early assertion that she no longer needs to read the Court’s opinions because...
...facts my classes briefly stored in my short-term memory that have sparked the change. I’m sure I’ve forgotten much of the information I learned in lectures past. Though Harvard’s reputation rests on its academic prowess, courses here have not always been as fulfilling as I would have hoped...