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...genre but also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly charging into action, swords slicing the air, instead of more sensibly retreating to their studies to think things over when danger threatens. Jack is an anachronism, engaging in a lot of desperate improvisations to keep his skin intact...
...Open University of Hong Kong, who worries about health risks posed by taking a dip in the water. "I think it's crazy." Indeed, doctors have advised swimmers to flush their eyes with antibiotic drops, and to refrain from taking part if they have cuts on their skin, while Guangzhou's Yangcheng Evening News quoted a woman whose training swims in the river left her with diarrhea and eye inflammation. Her sage advice to swimathon contestants: wear a wet suit...
...together with his fellows and through a disjointed-yet-charming plot, he eventually realizes that “there is no one quite like you, Charlie Brown.” Lauren L. Jackson ’07 finds more room for her distinct talent in Lucy’s skin than she did as the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland” this past May. She also works elegantly with Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, who plays the character Sally. Benowitz’s every word is worth a laugh; in keeping with...
...hundred with perfect teeth and a six-minute mile.Yet such optimistic prognosis is not available to everyone.Take, for example, one-year-old Hassan. Admitted a week ago for malnutrition, pneumonia, and anemia, he is now naked, pale, and wide eyed; his frail ribcage is clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips...
...Jewish refugees the U.S. should take in, we have never managed to have an ethnic-neutral, origin-neutral discussion of immigration reform. It always becomes about keeping out "those people." The present debate is no different, just because the people we're most eager to keep out have brown skin and speak Spanish. One of my readers is, at least, honest about it. His e-mail handle is "No More Mexicans...