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...simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...
...everyone knows that the system is broken beyond repair. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 3 out of 4 Americans favor a government- financed national health-care program. The AFL-CIO is campaigning vigorously for national health care, and Big Business, terrified by the skyrocketing cost of employee health benefits, seems ready to go along. Even in the medical profession -- the ancient redoubt of free-enterprise traditionalists -- a majority now favor national health insurance...
Fortunately, the damage is not beyond repair. NASA plans to perform an in- orbit service call on the space telescope in 1993. In the meantime, pictures from the Hubble can be sharpened by computer enhancement. The telescope has taken some surprisingly good shots, including images of a gas jet streaming from a newborn star and a huge storm on Saturn...
...chemically active, combining with proteins in the blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like a splinter lodged in a foot, this superglue is a source of constant irritation, which signifies, to the body, damage in need of repair. The disastrous result: a spurt of new growth that thickens the walls of capillaries and arteries, constricts blood flow and damages critical organs...
...break was fixed with a repair sleeve, workers said...