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...charismatic professor with an uncanny ability to diagnose patients even before they opened their mouths. For a time he worked as Bell's outpatient clerk and would watch, amazed, at how the location of a callus could reveal a man's profession, or how a quick look at a skin rash told Bell that the patient had once lived in Bermuda. In 1886, Conan Doyle - by now an eye doctor - outlined his first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which he described as "a simple tale of mystery to make a little extra money." Its main character, initially called Sherringford Hope...
...Haggard's greatest complaint is a matter of pride-and pride, in his hardscrabble past and his country, has always been his favorite song. "The thing that gets under my skin most about George W. is his intention to install fear in people," he said, after walking me down a hallway lined with gold and platinum records. "This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking...
...When injected or even put on the skin, the pain of capsaicin is quite intense,” said Alexander M. Binshtok, a post doctoral fellow at the Medical School who worked on the study...
Bhutto, however, has built her following based on a tireless campaign against army rule. Her discussions with Musharraf have earned her the ire of party faithful who say she has sold out in order to save her own skin. "She's making a deal with a dictator," says Ali Nazar Shah, a schoolteacher from Larkana. Bhutto is aware of these allegations, but says that for the sake of Pakistan it is better to be practical. "We believe the nation should leave the past behind and look towards a better future," she said in a London press conference announcing the reconciliation...
...elsewhere. In early September, Dr. Chiun-Sheng Huang, an oncologist at Taipei's National Taiwan University Hospital, examined a woman in her late 60s who had come to him for the first time. He discovered a tumor in her left breast so large that it had broken through her skin. She claimed she had first noticed the mass 17 years ago. The diagnosis was almost certainly terminal. When Huang asked the woman why she'd waited so long, she replied, "Because it didn't hurt...