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...trace an angel's death-cross...
...Clear fingerprints impressed in the clay of ancient pots are rare," he conceded. Ancient potters, like modern, were at pains to smooth away any trace of their own hands. But in concealed places, on the underside of handles or inside spouts, where the potter gave the clay a last shaping touch, telltale prints can sometimes be found...
...sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...
...that doctors, unable to face the tragedy, will sometimes stop visiting an incurably ill child, and that nurses may try not to become emotionally involved. Clergymen frequently abandon bereaved mothers and fathers as soon as the funeral is over. Even close relatives, trying to be helpful, often remove every trace of the dead child-his books, clothes and toys and games-and encourage parents to forget at a time when their real need is "to work through their grief by talking incessantly and by remembering...
...research at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (PBBH), where he has been since 1953. He graduated from George Washington University Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at PBBH. Wacker has focused his research on the application of biochemistry to medicine. His studies include electrolyte balance and trace metals...