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Glicklich. who is on leave from the Graduate School of Education, had charged the doctors with failing to diagnose and treat correctly a cancerous lump in her right breast, which spread to her brain and became inoperable...
...figure of the 20th century and his presidency remains an important factor in all our lives. Historians, journalists and interested citizens of the present and future will find his papers invaluable for understanding the use and abuse of power. We can learn from the post-mortem how better to treat the disease...
Findings from Ebla may have an even broader impact. Many liberal Bible scholars treat Abraham not as a historical figure but as a sort of Semitic King Arthur. Their view is that the stories about Abraham and the other Patriarchs must have been written down more than 1,000 years later than the events they purport to describe. Now, in the area of the world that produced the Bible, Ebla has established that sophisticated and extensive written culture existed well before Moses and even Abraham, as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the ebullient Dahood...
...something--just what is maddeningly unclear--made him rebel at his fellow detectives scorn for the system. At least partially driven by self-preservation and self-aggrandizement, Ciello is not noble, just understandable. He risks his job and his life to turn on his fellow officers, a move that Treat Williams sensitively portrays as impulsive, with Ciello unaware of his actions' real consequences...
More threatening than the shallow Arctic waters is the ice; it can punch holes in sturdy tugs and treat barges like pincushions. The passing floes can make a landsman as giddy as a child finding shapes hi clouds. He sees ironing boards and beached seaplanes and dolphin tails and animals that guard the doors of ancient Egyptian tombs. But to the Cavalier's crew, there is nothing fanciful about these floating hulks. The ice is fragile from the summer, and if the tug sails too close, its wake can make the bergs crack or explode. Depending on the density...