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...elderly in the small Norwegian coastal town of Molde (pop. 24,000), three hours west of Trondheim. "I did not feel as if things would change for the better at home," Günther says. He's now "happy to have time" for his patients again - despite working shorter hours than in Berlin, where 45 hours a week is common. For Günther, adapting to his new working environment meant slowing down from the "mad pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that...
...impotence vis-a-vis the West, the arrogant concept of the superiority of Islam and Muslim youths' lack of hope. The war on terrorism is to a large extent a war of ideas with a heavy religious imprint. Ideas and minds must be changed on all sides. CHARLES B. SHORTER Kampala, Uganda...
...first thing we've put down that doesn't sound like a white-knuckle riot. I can listen to this." Hail to the Thief is still a Radiohead album--brooding in places, soaring in others, with a slight undertone of apocalypse all around--but the songs are shorter and tighter, and there are several uninterrupted patches of actual warmth in the vocals. "I was enjoying singing again," says Yorke. "I just didn't like the sound of my voice as it was the last several years. It would echo around in a funny way, and it had this emotional range...
CHUL voted down this idea 10 to 9, with 12 members abstaining. Student representatives explained the decision by stating that they were faced with the choice of maintaining the current system with longer breakfasts in “cold” Houses or serving shorter hot breakfasts in all the Houses. Under the plan in place, the eight House dining halls serving cold breakfasts were open up to half an hour longer than the other Houses...
...more forcefully than ever of a simple truth that is all too often forgotten: bodies are not made, they grow. The genome is not a blueprint for constructing a body. It is a recipe for baking a body. You could say the chicken embryo is marinated for a shorter time in the HoxC8 sauce than the mouse embryo is. Likewise, the development of a certain human behavior takes a certain time and occurs in a certain order, just as the cooking of a perfect souffle requires not just the right ingredients but also the right amount of cooking...