Word: reflecting
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Such comments reflect the distance that still separates the doctor and the engineer. "What is needed," says Dr Joseph B. Boatman, chief of physiology and biophysics at Battelle Memorial Institute, "is better communication. The physician must learn to ask the right questions of the right people. Medical research must bring together many skills and many backgrounds. What we lack is a school to train medical research clinicians. The whole purpose of medical schools is to train physicians to treat patients and there is no room to train researchers. Medical school should stop making research a secondary interest...
...Gobelins factory began with a burst of glory. Founded by Louis XIV's energetic Finance Minister, Colbert, in 1662, its first task was to reflect France's reigning Sun King. To keep up with his demands, 250 weavers were required, while additional shops turned out furniture, sculpture, mosaics, even locks and bolts. Presiding over all was Charles Le Brun, who gave the age its style. As first painter to the King, Le Brun decorated most of Louis' palaces, planned Versailles' garden statues and, above all, saw through to completion some of the most sumptuous tapestries ever...
Hall was delighted by the invitation to visit Soviet hospitals. Like many Ameri cans, he figured that Russia's scientific skills in space and nuclear weaponry must reflect a similar competence in medicine. He was anxious to learn what ever he could...
...little-known magazine called Transaction charged that the President's State of the Union message was a barely recognizable description of the U.S. The message relied too heavily on economic bookkeeping, too little on social accounting, wrote Bertram M. Gross, professor of political science at Syracuse University. To reflect the quality as well as the quantity of American life. Gross said, the President should deliver an annual "Social Report" that deals in the round with the state of education, arts, crime and disease...
Fire & Urine. How accurately the Parsis reflect Zoroaster's own teachings is a matter of much scholarly debate. Many of their religious customs-such as abstention from both beef and pork -appear to have been borrowed from Islam or Hinduism. But in their temples, which nonbelievers are forbidden to enter, the Parsis still worship fire, which was Zoroaster's chosen symbol of divine power. At their marriage feasts, wedded couples ceremoniously sip bull's urine because it allegedly purifies both body and soul...