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With the end of mandatory retirement, there is a threat that FAS will come to resemble a useless geriatric ward. Retirement incentives, wielded appropriately, offer a promising solution to this problem. We hope that FAS will consider the interests of the students paramount to their charitable instincts and will encourage those past their prime to make room for fresh blood...
Another major concern is the loss of fluid. When deep burns cover a large area of the body and the skin no longer provides an effective barrier against infection, the immune system goes into overdrive to ward off invading germs. It floods the injured areas with blood and plasma carrying immune cells, which cause extensive inflammation and swelling. In some cases the swelling is severe enough to interfere with breathing, and the patient must be put on a ventilator...
...disease: his grandmother and mother died from it, and he knows there is a fifty-fifty chance that he has inherited the time-bomb gene. Two siblings have tested negative, two others positive. One sister is battling symptoms, including a depression that has landed her in a psychiatric ward. "Until now," Jack says, "I haven't cared to know my destiny because I didn't want it to change how I face my day-to-day life...
...Singleton's mother, Hamida S. Ward, said the renovation "shows class"-unlike the stationery building across the street, currently a make-shift space selling dorm items, close-outs and other merchandise...
...just reminded me of K-Mart-no, not K-Mart, of one of those bargain basement stores," Ward said of the stationery building. "It's so sparse...