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...balancing work and family; the women who do go into politics tend to do so later in life and thus have shorter political careers. Yvonne Johnson, the mayor of Greensboro, N.C. - where six of nine city council members are women - has figured out how to do it all. "They tell you being mayor is a part-time job. What a joke," says Johnson, who has four adult children and also directs a nonprofit organization. "I work on the balance all the time...
...Institute had already developed membranes that could distinguish mineral content in different waters. "It was Cecilia's idea to apply the technology to wine," says César Fernández, speaking for his colleague Jonquera-Jiménez. "When she spoke with people in the industry, they would tell her they needed a quick way to determine the components of a wine without having to send...
...paying for it" is the gist of their letters to patients and doctors. But has there been any improvement in our overall treatment of spinal stenosis since the revelation that the surgery actually works? Have more folks lined up for the operation since? Not that I can tell from my practice. When I tell stenosis patients that we now "know," in 2008, that the surgery works better than other treatments, they look at me like I'm crazy...
...tell, faith in expert opinion is how medical students, residents and even full-blown docs do much of their learning - mostly just trusting a few great doctors who teach. I know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
...remember the smell of gunfire, the smell of war in the air. It was very painful to see the loss of territory, people falling into poverty." A teenager at the time, Amaglobeli now is an adult with a BlackBerry that rings persistently with panicky questions from family members. "I tell them to be calm but stay vigilant, and if the time comes, leave," he says...