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...solution." Archbishop Tutu has recently been applying the lessons to the fractured society of Northern Ireland, where he hopes bringing victims and killers face-to-face in unofficial meetings shown on television can help break the stranglehold of hatred and recrimination. Yet while Meiring says the trc was a vital part of "our healing" and "profoundly important in creating a new South Africa," he also recognizes that it was an extraordinarily painful process to many South Africans. A good portion of the country's whites considered the trc a witch hunt, and some blacks still resent the idea of amnesty...
...morning in a doctor's waiting room. Instead, she went to Cub Foods, her local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into a computer before giving her a prescription to treat a sinus infection. The visit took 20 minutes and cost $59. Hillesheim forked over $25, the co-pay required by her insurer. "You don't have to plan your day around this doctor appointment," she says. "You just...
...University in Quebec, to champion another measure for metabolic health: waist circumference. In a series of recent studies, researchers found that a larger waist circumference is a good indicator for metabolic syndrome, a constellation of physiologic changes that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. "I call it a vital sign," Despres says of the simple measure that he believes every doctor should include in every physical exam. "It's as important to know the size of your waistline as it is to know your cholesterol or blood pressure." Such a simple measurement, he says, could serve as a wake...
...says. "But now [the Iraqis] have to take responsibility for their decisions." At 6 p.m., Khalilzad meets al-Jaafari behind closed doors in the Prime Minister's residence and tells him that the political process needs to be started up again and that an all-party coalition government is vital to Iraq's interests. An al-Jaafari aide says the Prime Minister listened politely but made no commitment...
...such an exposure. According to the CUE Guide, of the 143 students who enrolled in History 10a last year, 93 of them chose to take it to fulfill a Core requirement or as an elective. This alone should merit the continued staffing of the course; when one considers the vital importance of providing history concentrators themselves with this basic knowledge the case is even more compelling. History 10a serves students in a way that narrowly focused history courses cannot. Despite the inclinations of some in the academy, there is merit to teaching courses that have not sprung forth from doctoral...