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...full year abroad. As with year-long programs, students who study abroad for one semester find that their time away provides extraordinary academic and personal rewards. Students who study abroad during the summer also find the time away extremely helpful to meet certain goals best suited to a short-term program...
...something was wrong, and Mayer returned home without taking her final exams. Diagnosed with indeterminable short-term memory loss, Mayer decided to work at home (not an easy task, she says, considering that no one wanted to hire someone with a head injury) for a semester and then joined City Year to volunteer for 10 months before returning to college...
When fenfluramine was approved in 1973, the FDA declared it safe for short-term use. The assumption: that it would be prescribed for only severely obese patients who seemed impervious to other treatment--"not," as University of Pennsylvania cardiologist Frank Silvestry puts it, "to get into a bikini or wedding dress." But in 1992 all that changed. Studies showed that if fenfluramine was taken with a kindred drug, phentermine, the euphonious fen/phen duo would help dieters shed pounds not only faster but with few side effects. Although the drugs were never approved for combined use, doctors exercised their right...
...that really does, however, is bring the numbers down to where they should have been all along. Manufacturers said from the start that their pills offered a short-term therapy for the obese, not for people looking to fit into a smaller bathing suit. FDA approved Redux with just such a caveat, and when limited to these patients, the drugs may still make sense--despite the risks--because morbid obesity carries its own dangers, including heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Too often, however, Redux and fen-phen were peddled to all comers, almost like candy. The current backlash, says Levine...
...script itself is often as wobbly as the short-term ententes formed among the characters. Screenwriter Laura Jones, who so bravely and audaciously recontextualized last winter's Portrait of a Lady, shows a disappointing, almost slavish devotion to Smiley's prose. In fact, the movie's first half-hour plays like a book on tape, with transparent thumbnail characterizations ("I guess you remember that Rose always says what she thinks") and redundant observations ("We all understood that something important had just happened...