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...wife's cancer was incurable, 79% received the news from the doctor. Still, patients and families do control at least some of the information flow, Dahlstrand says. "Sometimes a spouse can block out what the doctor is trying to tell them," she says. "So, the doctor must be as straightforward and unambiguous as possible...
...approach meaningful. For evidence, Core planners should look to their own most hugely successful Core course, the venerable Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” or to Historical Studies A-17, “Modern Political Ideologies,” in content a straightforward introduction to political philosophy. But why should economics and political philosophy be the only fields in which students may gain a basic grounding, and gain credit for it as such, without sacrificing an elective slot? In the social sciences, similar well-thought-out introductions to sociology, anthropology and psychology should join...
...these tests are negative, Blumenthal says, then the explanation could be relatively straightforward. "Someone who has a simple faint, if it's hot, or hasn't eaten, could have a period of low blood pressure that after they collapse could look like a neurological event." Even a reaction to medications could cause such a brief blackout. "It's just too early to say," he notes...
...just revamped its user-friendly food pyramid model. The department of nutrition at the school has relaunched its Web site, www.thenutritionsource.org, complete with a free, downloadable version of its Healthy Eating Pyramid. The pyramid was updated by researchers at the school to present the latest data in a clear, straightforward way. “We want to have the latest science available to the public in a way that can help them to eat well and stay healthy,” said Lilian W. Cheung, the editorial director of the Nutrition Source site. According to Cheung, the Web site...
What I call the McMafia - the new international criminal networks - now dominates a shadow economy which accounts for around 15% of the world's GDP. Inextricably bound up with straightforward criminal markets is a spiraling level of corruption throughout much of the world. For a common strategy of criminal syndicates is the "capture" or "semicapture" of a state. American and European law-enforcement agencies now categorize the West African country of Guinea-Bissau as the world's first "narcostate," a place where the levers of official power are now entirely at the disposal of operations moving cocaine from South America...