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Unfortunately, it's useless to confront themwith this. Unlike their female counterparts,they'll just make excuses

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Bad Karma | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...your article about patients and doctors exchanging e-mail is true [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Aug. 17], and people really believe communication has opened up, then I guess everything we physicians were taught in med school about interpreting nonverbal cues and other interactive signals during an examination was useless. You suggested limiting e-mail to "routine inquiries" such as requests for referral. This would indicate that a particularly complicated medical problem has arisen, demanding a thorough clinical investigation by a person's present doctor. Motives of both patients and physicians willing to carry out such a complex interaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...know it is about romance and adventure and danger and the beauty of a person on a quest. The story-hungry mind is ageless too. And here is the old/new story of courage in a distant place, of daring and going. Never mind that the carpers call this mission useless. The public does not require a usefulness beyond its own admiring pleasure. As for the practicalities of the space program, it was never so useful as when it reminded the country of heroic capabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: A Realm Where Age Doesn't Count | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...pokes fun and raises questions about the state of the former Soviet Union during the late '80s and early '90s. In addition, the latter play doesn't contain the painful and poignant emotional turbulence that the former is famous for. To try to compare them any further would be useless. But rest assured that, if you were genuinely moved by the powerful presence of Angels last fall, you will probably enjoy the bizarre Slavs! this summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...protection stipulating that he must stay at least 400 hundred feet away from her. Stalking is not something to laugh at; it is a serious crime against women which is often overlooked until it is too late. And as Mary's stalker has shown, orders of protection are often useless against violently estranged boyfriends, lovers and husbands. The fact that Mary's stalkers are just a bunch of idiots, each more pathetic than the other, ends the movie with a sigh of relief and burst of laughter. But what if Mary's crazed ex-boyfriend had chosen to harm...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Here's Something To Laugh About | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

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