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...apparent to me that there is an explosion of genetic information but also a real vacuum of knowledge for the general practitioner," Housman said. "We came to the realization that the family physician should work together with the basic scientist...
Meanwhile, out in the countryside the disintegration of the Haitian military left a yawning power vacuum. In the north, around the country's second largest city of Cap Haitien, civil authority virtually collapsed following the fire fight on Sept. 24 in which a company of Marines cut down 10 Haitian police officers. Since then, the army and police have evaporated throughout whole sections of the region...
...claims that whether we acknowledge it or not, we're "thinking racially" when we carry out such innocent tasks as house-hunting or choosing a radio station. We can only imagine the extension of this argument: "Whether we recognize it or not--when we balance our checkbooks, when we vacuum our bedroom, when we choose the brown rice pancakes over the baked potato bar we are thinking racially...
...consumers' traditional freedom to spend . . . Universal coverage would involve redistribution of income and disrupt satisfactory arrangements for many Americans." To this Magaziner added an ironic warning to himself, which he apparently would forget: "The task force should plan serious outreach activities. The policy work cannot be done in a vacuum...
...next seven or so days of your life will spill over with activities and general stimuli. It will be one of the few times when groups of Harvard students simply sit around talking because of arbitrary rooming assignments made by the HDO. Watch the improbable friendships form in the vacuum of a larger social structure. And then watch some of them dissolve when the participants and classmates more suitable to their coeds...