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...pain-treatment service came about because Berde and colleague Navil Sethna, faced with patients who had seemingly intractable problems, devised novel solutions, and because other doctors began to seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain had spun out of control. "In three days he went from no morphine to 400 milligrams an hour, which is a pretty industrial dose," says Berde. "A normal amount might be 3 milligrams an hour...
Relying on the same epidemiological techniques used to track dangerous pathogens, Wintemute and his associates at U.C. Davis seek out patterns and trends in the data that federal and state governments keep on firearms: types of guns sold, who buys and sells them and the background of shooters and victims alike. Wintemute's 1994 study Ring of Fire, for example, takes a hard look at gunmakers around Los Angeles. It has been hailed as a major indictment of the cheapie pistols known as "Saturday-night specials," the weapons of choice of inner-city gangs. The California effort to impose tough...
These three cops are the backbone of "L.A. Confidential." Their jobs demand that they be mired in filth and degradation, and they have not escaped untarnished. White sees violence against women and turns to a brutal brand of justice. Vincennes busts celebrity drug users and comes to seek the spotlight himself. Exley is enamored with the established system and is seduced by the power that it wields. All three men have been infected by the underworld in which they must exist...
...must move forward," Price added. "We seek and exist for the search for veritas...
INTO THE WOODS WE GO Outdoor lovers may soon tick Lyme disease off their list of worries. Two competing groups of researchers have developed a pair of similar vaccines against the deer tick-borne disease. Each team plans to seek fda approval...