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From his experience with hundreds of gunshot victims, Wintemute knows only too well that their wounds are among the hardest for doctors to deal with. The gaping holes torn into the flesh by bullets of any kind can easily destroy major organs, unleash torrents of blood, produce severe infection and in general cause widespread bodily mayhem. Gunshot wounds also account for a major part of the rise in spinal injuries in the U.S.; even the grazing passage of a bullet along the spinal cord can be enough to cause paralysis. Two-thirds of gunshot victims do not live long enough...
...Washington to sign mainly to put pressure on other major states to get aboard. Now it is unlikely that Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and others will sign on. Nor will North or South Korea. But most of the civilian casualties are suffered in such war-torn states as Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Namibia and Mozambique, where millions of abandoned mines lie in wait. Those countries are expected to sign...
...Vice President of Physicians for Human Rights, Eisenberg has traveled to war-torn regions of Chile, El Salvador and Paraguay, painstakingly chronicling the death and despair she witnessed there...
Eisenberg says she did not feel torn between her humanitarian values and student protests, since students were on the whole "well behaved" and more concerned with government powers than campus administration. She says her greatest challenge during years at MIT was facing the unknown, unnamed hazards of being the first female dean...
...Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also shows a debt to the Bard in its exploration of adultery and family upheaval...