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...effort is paying off. civb president Christian Delpeuch recently returned from a three-continent promotional tour. "Sales since the beginning of 2005 have never been so good," he says, noting up to 47% export increases to Britain, the U.S. and China from December 2005 through February 2006. "Those smart enough to have concentrated their efforts on quality and promotion are rapidly taking back the market." French wine critic Jacques Dupont doubts the message is reaching everyone though - especially the lower-end, Bordeaux-producing majority. "For too long they have neglected marketing," he says. "I believe we've hit rock bottom...
...hope to intubate, or to put in the huge IVs we use in the big veins of the neck or chest. If the chief wasn't there yet we were the ones who had to start giving directions to the nurses and medical people who filled the room. A smart intern in this situation always watched the face of the oldest nurse and changed course when it told...
...riddle the smart medical resident solved was this: the student nurse had come in to say goodnight to her patient. She then gave him a backrub. And what did she use for the backrub? The cream on the bedside table - Nitropaste. The huge surface area of his back gave the patient a walloping dose. Even the surface area of the nurse's hands was enough to knock her out. Smiles went all around. Though the two weren't awake yet, we all knew that they were safe - a good thing about Nitropaste is you can "turn it off," rapidly stopping...
...someone who was bright but humble and committed to using her gifts to improve society. “She wanted to go into U.S. policy-making, to make a difference,” says Khadija Shakir, Shirin’s mother. “She was very humble, yet smart and beautiful.” Shakir was also known for her lightheartedness. “She refused to take herself seriously,” says Matthew A. Long, a fellow Law School student. Childhood friend Lidia Rekas, who has known Shakir since the fifth grade, says that her last memory...
...swear I will never be that man.’” Nevertheless, Burkle fears that in some ways he has not been able to escape the stereotypical Harvard air. “My speech is basically about how we’re cripplingly smart, and so I feel like no one else is going to understand the speech outside our class, and it’ll just make my point,” he says. “I could come off as a giant asshole.” But despite the traditionally humorous bent...