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...advances in trauma care during the past decade. A generation ago, emergency rooms were dumping grounds for bad doctors and training grounds for young ones. But the experience of two world wars, Korea and especially Vietnam taught doctors that saving injured patients depended as much on speed as on skill. Doctors refer to "the golden hour" after a trauma, before irreversible shock sets in, when lifesaving treatment is most likely to succeed. Beginning in the early '80s, states organized themselves into trauma networks and began tailoring training programs for physicians interested in emergency care as a specialty. The goal...
...point seems so obvious, yet Harvard ignores it: outstanding teaching should be recognized as an intellectual art form rather than a practical or vocational skill. The undergraduates at this institution did not overcome rigid admission requirements and astronomical tuition fees to receive the same type of education available at their local overgrown state universities...
...seemed for much of his life unaffected by the world around him, that may have been an advantage, considering the world he lived in. He avoided the Viet Nam War, but he also ignored much that led to Viet Nam. Inattentiveness is sometimes a survival skill. Quayle's pugnacious father did not always agree with Quayle's more famous grandfather, Eugene Pulliam, and among Pulliams it matters from which wife of Eugene one is descended (he had three). When the 17-year-old Quayle thought of siding with his father against his grandfather on behalf of family friend Barry Goldwater...
Since the sport requires no special skill or physical conditioning, the challenge is strictly psychological. Veteran jumpers like to tease newcomers by telling them it's not the fall they should be afraid of, but hitting the ground. Some participants describe the experience as "death survived." Susan Steade, 27, a San Jose writer, made two jumps in the summer of 1988. Says she: "Skydiving was a lot less scary." Lance Colvin, 30, a computer specialist in Santa Clara, Calif., is a veteran of 50 leaps. "You get sweaty palms, cotton mouth," he says. "But the jump...
Stone. Bronze. Oil on canvas. This is the durable stuff that heavy-duty art history is made of. For more than three decades, however, Jean-Michel Folon has taken on serious, humanistic themes with no more than delicate whispers of watercolor on paper. His skill and inventiveness have made him one of the world's best-known commercial artists. Now, in a career-spanning survey on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art through June 3, Folon is coming in for the sort of institutional scrutiny rarely afforded an artist whose work is better known from posters...