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...thing is a medical classic. Just follow the cliches - BIG specialist, little old family doctor. Yes, the impressive title might still be a huge deal for some, but it really does seem that the kids in med school now are a little wiser and promise to be less esteem-driven than past generations. That's good because they promise to be more fully orbed, empathetic humans; but it's also bad because they take a lot more time off. The big egos of my generation pushed their owners through quite a bit of extra hard work...
...those people who spit in the soup. I would like to go back if the opportunity arises," says Florence Cellot, 32, a marketing specialist who has just moved to London after five years in Tokyo. But, she says, "France is like an old lady. It is paralyzed by the fear of what it could lose." Jacques Deguest puts it even more bluntly. He's a friend of Cellot's who moved to Tokyo in 2001 after a web-hosting company he started in France collapsed in the dotcom crash. It was a bitter experience, and he says...
...chosen firm, Pennsylvania-based Standing Stone Consulting, Inc., consists of five staff members, one of whom is a specialist in anti-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction...
...hunter rather than of the prey. Its use in military defense, according to "Camouflage," an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum until November, evolved as a result of the advent of long-range precision weaponry. Only in 1915, when the French army established a specialist camouflage unit, did the study of concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge of form, perspective and color to use," says James Taylor, historian at the Imperial War Museum. So the dislocations of Cubism (Jacques Villon...
...cells and contain satellite growths that might have broken off from the primary tumor. After undergoing surgery to remove a growth from his right pelvic area, doctors discovered additional growths in his liver. According to Dr. Raymond DuBois, incoming provost of MD Anderson Cancer Center and a colon cancer specialist, it's not unusual to see additional growths several months or years following such a procedure. "Any time a patient comes in with a big tumor, we always worry about micrometastatic lesions somewhere else in the body," says DuBois, who did not treat Snow. "Once you have a tumor anywhere...