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Constant wisecracks about President Bush’s lack of eloquence belie how the President asserts power through his vocabulary. His seeming inattention to language is probably a symptom of contemporary society’s general disinterest in words. This is evident in the sloppy communications even of students at a University like ours. Yet words do influence the interlocutors who use them, in often imperceptible but significant ways. Concepts which, when explained explicitly, we would refuse, penetrate our consciousness through their repetition as popular expressions and grow to become categories of our thought. Dismayingly, even speakers with the privilege...
...come down with celiac disease this week, you might not know it until 2015. It's not that the illness is symptom free. Caused by a severe allergy to gluten (a protein found in wheat and other grains), the disease can cause diarrhea, gas, cramping and weight loss--which is why doctors often mistakingly assume it's irritable bowel syndrome. Or it might show up instead as joint pain, or fatigue, or a skin rash...
Just getting vets to come in for help can be the toughest part of the job for Martin, who heads the VA's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Outpatient Services team for the greater Los Angeles area. Avoidance is a classic symptom of PTSD, she says. "They are 21 years old, and they say, 'All I want to do is play my Walkman and go to school.'" Or they act dutifully: "It's 'Yes, ma'am; no, ma'am; thank you, ma'am; see you around." It's not unusual for veterans suffering from PTSD to wait a year before...
Then-UHS Assistant Director Dr. Sholem Postel said at the time that Salmonella infects mainly dairy products, especially food made with eggs. Diarrhea is the main symptom of such poisoning—in fall 1978, students would nickname the Salmonella outbreak the “Harvard trots...
...named Seymour Hersh first broke a story about the massacre of scores of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai. The remedy at the time was to blame it all on Lt. William Calley, an officer in charge on the day. My Lai may simply have been a symptom, however, of a war in which American forces were ranged not only against communist insurgents, but against a substantial proportion of the civilian population who supported them. My Lai was hardly the only instance of non-combatants dying by American hands in Vietnam. But back home, the U.S. public...