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...practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent ethics are ignored, clinical standards suffer, and misdiagnosis and mistreatment are commonplace. No wonder patients are dissatisfied and seek help elsewhere. Andrew Smith Reading, England High-Tech Referees Re "Technophobia" [June 26], your article on why high-tech solutions aren't being used to reduce referee errors in football: Football's world governing body - the Fédération Internationale de Football Association - shouldn't be so closed-minded...
...struggle was portrayed as a rebel region's fight against Franco's dictatorship. But since the advent of democracy in 1978, ETA's support has steadily dwindled to the point where today it is almost unanimously rejected by Basque society. Indeed, despite Basques' desire for self-rule- some still seek independence from Spain- tolerance for political violence has disappeared. It was the desire to heal the traumas of 40 years of low-intensity civil conflict that saw the brief 1998 cease-fire called by ETA greeted with so much hope, but it was soon broken in a new wave...
...further Taepo Dong test missiles before they can be launched. Second, the North should be penalized for defying the international community's unanimous appeal not to conduct its July 4 tests. China and South Korea are the main economic benefactors of North Korea, and President Bush is right to seek a United Nations Security Council action that would compel all nations to suspend trade with Pyongyang...
...audience inquired why the cast and crew chose to stay at Harvard during the summer. After hearing their work was unpaid, she wondered if they got academic credit. But to both questions, the answer was “no.” In a time when many of us seek profitable private jobs or for-credit summer courses across time zones, it’s refreshing to find a group that suffers the Cambridge heat and humidity for something else. Quoting Jonas A. Budris ’06 as the character Schroeder, “It is not for profit...
...sharing their secret recipes. They claimed intellectual property was violated. But what about Hassan? Or his brother? And the nameless thousands?Even though the Food and Drug Administration eventually caved, these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition our trillion-dollar pharmaceuticals can provide.Our world is one divided and sub-divided by arbitrary...