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...apply what happens in our classes to what is going on in the real world," he said. "In high school, I felt that it was useless to go to class and study and not do anything for the community...
...worse. The emphysema had created so many permanent blisters in his lungs that he could barely cross the room without gasping for air. So when Dr. Joel Cooper of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, told him about a radical new idea--cutting out the useless pieces of his lungs to give him more room to breathe--Henry jumped at the chance to be Cooper's first patient. Now, two years after the surgery, he plays golf, rides a stationary cycle and walks a mile every...
Military psychologist Dan Landis says, "There are all kinds of macho traditions that have grown up at the Citadel whose rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...
Threats against the Balkan fighting cocks will make things worse. We in the West have not the will, the manpower nor the sense to stop those at war in the region. Can anybody defend the actions taken by the Balkan warlords or the useless talk by NATO members and the U.N.? Can't we shame those "leaders" into behaving like humans? ROLF JAMES Toronto...
...signs. Nor is there a definitive test for the disease. Doctors must base their diagnosis on such circumstantial evidence as abnormal spots on white blood cells and a low level of white cells or platelets in the blood. Furthermore, the drug most commonly used for Lyme disease -- amoxicillin -- is useless against the Ehrlichia bacteria...