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Feldstein was torn between his interests in economics and medicine throughout his undergraduate career. After college, he was accepted to Harvard Medical School, but decided to postpone his enrollment after he received a full-ride scholarship to attend Oxford University...
...Dukes had to be tough and rebellious. Daisy has got to be funny and look great in those shorts." So they Flubberized the car, cast two paragons of rudeness--Seann William (Stifler) Scott and Johnny (Jackass) Knoxville--as Bo and Luke Duke and poured Jessica Simpson into torn hot pants. Hell, that should rankle Osama bin Laden. The national healing begins...
...hurling it across the three-lane road. An improvised explosive device, intended for the patrols, had gone off just 10 feet from the car. The two men were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck. The blast also damaged a second car, with shrapnel hitting its driver, university...
...absence of any other diagnostic equipment, however, the doctors had underestimated the seriousness of the injuries to Salah's left arm. "It looks superficial, and we have stopped the blood loss," said Emad. But he was unable to see that Salah had suffered two torn nerves, damaged tendons and, most dangerous of all, two torn arteries. The only blood flow to his arm was coming from collateral circulation, from minor blood vessels and capillaries in the skin. Left in that condition, the hand would have been irreparably damaged in two or three days...
Many feel that along the way, while they were getting their promotion or having their kids or managing their households, they set aside something important that they want to retrieve - their hiking boots, their screenplay, a law degree. "Everybody I know has a version of this," says Susan Reimer-Torn, now a life coach in New York City. "Phase I, you kind of put all the pieces together in your mid- or late 20s, and it almost always involves some kind of trade-off. You figure out what you absolutely must have and end up giving up something else...