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...Statistically speaking, I probably won't diagnose any more brain tumors in my career, but I'll probably see several more caffeine overloaded patients. The bulk of my headache patients will continue to be diagnosed by taking careful histories and without CT scans. But I often wonder if I will be able to figure out the next time a zebra comes galloping through my office doors masquerading as a horse...
...Small wonder, then, that the students have started to mimic the left's rhetoric of victimhood. A prominent student conservative--Charles Mitchell of Pennsylvania's Bucknell University--urged conference attendees to return to their campuses and create "safe zones" for conservatives, who are, he said, "constantly under attack." Antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, darkly warned that Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues--a collection of sketches about women's sexual experiences that was performed on more than 600 campuses last year--has inspired "an army" of campus feminists whom she called "very elitist." Sommers told...
...wonder that, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 26% of 2-to-5-year-olds are at risk of becoming overweight, and 14% are already overweight--more than twice the incidence in the mid-'70s and up 35% in the past four years alone. Those numbers could rise as much as 30% overnight if the U.S. adopts the new growth-chart guidelines issued last month by the World Health Organization. "I'm seeing younger and younger kids overweight--as young as 10 months old," says Jan Hangen, a clinical nutrition specialist at Children...
...invested, is one of many still furious with him. "If he could come to our house to sell us the policy," she asks, "why can't he come to our house now to tell us what to do?" As investors await the outcome of lawsuits, they also wonder about the possible impact on the local economy. "I've heard that some families who had put down deposits on new apartments have pulled out because they [are worried they] can't pay for them anymore," says Martínez. For Suaréz, the potential loss of what she calls...
...stable," says a member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, which the French Ministry of Culture set up in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon." The sad fact is that visitors to Lascaux today come to look not for wonder, insight or inspiration. They come to look for fluffy tufts of mold...