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...what a shame this hypocrisy is, especially in this particular circumstance. We have harnessed the atom and mapped the genome, but public figures do not talk of our shared ancestry, or the hard and lucky road that we have drunkenly walked down to become sentient. We cannot refer to the rich history of our species, because the concept of that history is not by any means shared. How can we have a vision of the future of humanity without a coherent, rational concept of its past? But the real danger in this half-commitment, this milking of science without purchase...
...PROFESSIONAL HELP. If you fear that you are a danger to yourself or others, head for the nearest emergency room. Otherwise, visit your college counseling center. Ideally, the staff should be able to screen for mental illness, prescribe medication and offer short-term treatment--or refer you to someone who can. But if your college's center falls short, look elsewhere. Keep in mind that for hospitalization or skillful long-term treatment, you'll probably need to go off campus anyway...
...options. In U.S. hospitals, more than 20% of all enterococcus infections, which include infections of the gastrointestinal tract, heart valve and blood, are now resistant to vancomycin, for many years the antibiotic of last resort. Even more worrisome, insensitivity to vancomycin--which nurses and physicians in intensive-care units refer to as the big gun--is showing up in the dangerous family of staphylococcus bacteria...
...jocular dynastic mood, has taken to calling his son "Quincy," and over the weekend, the New York Times published a pre-inaugural ranch interview with W. in which the President-elect mentioned he was reading a biography of John Quincy Adams: "If [my father]'s going to refer to me as Quincy, I might as well find out what the fellow was all about...
Financial pundits liked to refer to the recent expansion as the Goldilocks economy: everything from jobs to inflation was just right. But they could just as easily have named it for Lake Wobegon. For a while, investors acted as if every stock was above average. And companies that were in favor were wildly in favor. Just how giddy was it? Remember the name of 1999's buzzy, fast-selling financial Bible...