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...They learned how to confirm and date a pregnancy and measure a fetus--but not how to diagnose fetal abnormality. Two medical directors sign off on every report. "We're not giving medical care," Wood insists, although she stresses the value of early ultrasound in helping persuade women to quit smoking, eat better, get prenatal care and come to grips with what is happening inside their bodies. "I can't tell you how many women we see who have had an abortion in the past who all say the same thing," Wood says. "'If only someone had told...
Overt homophobia--including the Los Angeles Dodgers' alleged effort to push him into a sham marriage--made Burke, who some say created the high five, quit baseball in 1980. In '82 he became the first big leaguer to come out, but cocaine led to prison and homelessness. He died in 1995 from AIDS complications...
...later faced a threatened boycott of commencement exercises by the seniors. When the smoke cleared from an 1841 explosion in the chapel, the words “A Bone for Old Quin to Pick” were found written on the wall. A few years later, Old Quin quit picking bones with students and stepped down. While Quincy’s tempestuous reign pushed the institution of the president even closer to the edge of the pedestal, real accountability was still nearly a century away...
...Bagh Ali Mardan, a 27-year-old addict from Bamiyan, has tried to quit several times. Now he has given up. Waving a couple of curious children away from the ruins of a bombed house in Kabul where junkies congregate, he says it's better to stop the next generation from getting the habit. "This is a big problem for Afghanistan, much worse than terrorism or the Taliban. In war, if the enemy kills you, you die once. But addiction kills the future...
...complexity and empathy are lost. Readers turn inwards, accept what they are told is wrong with them, and accept the automatic solution. But if you have been tainted by the touch of Albom, all is not yet lost. The best way to break the self-help habit is to quit cold-turkey: put down “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem,” turn off Dr. Phil, and stop your correspondence with Dear Abby. If you still feel in need of redemption, go buy Albom’s new book and throw it on the fire...