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...full codes going on in the same smallish room. The medical people had squeezed in; there was a knot of them around each patient, hands on chins or EKG strips. We were working away but could only get their pressures up a little. They were both doing well lung-wise. The old man was completely out and intubated now; the nurse was breathing and reacted weakly when needles were inserted ,but that's all. There was a moment of stability and everyone seemed to look up at everyone else - the surgeons looked at the medical guys, the medical guys looked...
...exists between the Faculty and the student body. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 offered a comment that was as notable for its arrogance as it was for its disregard for undergraduate education: “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” This remark was particularly stunning in light of Mansfield’s comments nearly a year earlier in response to surveys indicating students’ dissatisfaction with the quality of their academic experience: “Nobody...
...back titles, and left Harvard head coach Joe Walsh searching for answers.“It was just a tough day,” Walsh said. “There was no turnaround point...We didn’t do a good enough job; they beat us hitting-wise [and] pitching-wise.”Up to that fateful meeting with Princeton, Walsh’s Crimson had established itself as the Ivies’ team to beat, rounding into form as the calendar turned to April and the opponents became familiar. Harvard easily dispatched the very same Tigers...
...With the country's health system in ruins and alcohol producers barely regulated, the initiatives are wise, said Dr. Ronaldo Laranjeira, the Sao Paulo doctor who led the U.S.-Brazilian team studying the ban's effects. "It is cheap," Laranjeira said, "and shows that alcohol-related violence can be tackled...
...himself was the patient under discussion. When we had a moment alone in the doctor?s lounge, I asked him "what's going on?" We talked about tests. It had to be his brain. His wise head therefore ordered itself shot through with x-rays, ultrasonic waves, magnet fields of strength found only around spinning stars, radio waves, injections of iodine, gadolinium, positron-emitting glucose. Many other brains were wracked for the sake of his; neurologists, neuroradiologists, infectious disease specialists. Tens of thousands of dollars of tests. No diagnosis...