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Murder is still all but unknown; infrequent crimes like pilfering are punished by public whipping. The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people. Once a year every good Maldivian Moslem voluntarily undertakes an act of national service-i.e., whitewashing a government building...
Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...situation was worse when Bock took over. In 1935 he pulled down the outside staircase that nurses had to use to get to their apartments on the top floor, and put in an elevator. He installed running water in the wards and lockers for student's clothing, items hitherto unknown. The most important innovation was a 50-bed wing to bring the infirmary's capacity up to 115. The medical set-up now is a paradise compared to what it was at the turn of the century...
...artillery has fired so many rounds into and over the whitened hills-"with results unknown." Our patrols have crept forward from our lines, through our barbed wire and minefields, a little way toward the enemy lines, and perhaps have sighted and fired at figures seen or imagined in the vibrant stillness-"with results unknown." Our corps and division commanders and staffs just don't have enough to do. Not that they are idle; far from it. But it's tough when there's so little active war to manage or follow. Minor patrol actions are followed...
...Legend variously attributes Matthew's death to fire, stoning and the sword. The exact circumstances are unknown...