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...pitches and turning instead to unbiased sources like the biweekly nonprofit Medical Letter medletter.com to get the lowdown on new drugs. The crusade is also making inroads among a new generation of doctors who haven't yet experienced drug-company largesse. The American Medical Student Association is trying to ward off drug reps who try to cozy up to future doctors long before they can write prescriptions. Instead of chowing down on a free sales-pitch sandwich, students--who are usually buried in debt and years away from making a salary--are being asked to brown-bag it. A tall...
...nkisi figures. While most nkisi figures - ritual religious statues - are about 20-cm tall, this exhibit displays some reaching nearly 1.2 m as they stand, left hand on hip, right arm brandishing a dagger. In the elaborate vocabulary of Congolese sculpture, this is a gesture of strength, meant to ward off evil. Painted eyes covered with transparent glass signify clairvoyance; eyes nearly closed denote serenity and a transition from one world to another. This artistic lexicon is used throughout the Congo region, encompassing several dozen tribes in the modern nations of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Gabon...
...Kate G. Ward...
...never considered replantation before,” said Malt in an interview with The Boston Globe in 1987, “but at the very minute Red came into the emergency ward, we were discussing the possibility of causing limbs to regenerate...
...simplify the position, a strategy that had previously served him well. But the machine slyly avoided the exchange and headed toward an endgame where it would have had one more pawn than Kramnik, who would be relegated to a long, tortuous defense to achieve a draw at best. To ward off the difficult endgame, Kramnik again offered a queen swap but he overlooked that he would loose his knight...