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...PAUL AUSTER, 47, HAS won a cult following in the U.S. and occasional best- seller status in Europe by playing new tricks with established literary forms. He mixes some of the experimental whimsy of a Borges or a Calvino with the narrative drive that made old-fashioned stories so appealing in the first place. When he riffs on detective fiction, for example, as he does in the novels that constitute his New York Trilogy -- City of Glass (1985), Ghosts and The Locked Room (both 1986) -- he sees to it that readers craving mystery, as well as or instead of Postmodernist...
...sympathy. Doctors have long defended taking a cool, dispassionate approach to patient care, arguing that it helps preserve objective judgment and protect against burnout. But critics disagree. "By concentrating on symptoms and lab data, we ignore a wealth of information that can affect patients' well-being," observes Dr. Simon Auster at the Uniformed Services medical school. Moreover, he says, "it takes less energy to get close to a patient than to maintain a distance." Auster warns, however, that caring should not be confused with wallowing in soppy feelings with patients or adopting an appealing bedside manner. "That's superficial charm...
Leverett will also be getting two new, assistant senior tutors James B Thompson Jr. professor of Mineralogy, and Henry Auster teaching fellow in History and Literature...
Thompson and Auster will replace David C. Major instructor in Economics and Robert J. Kiely, assistant professor of English...
Trauma can aggravate an already existing growth by disrupting its capsule, said Dr. Auster. An injury in the area of a tumor may cause an increase in the growth's size-by hemorrhage, cell destruction or infection. But for the patient who had a tumor and didn't know it, this might be helpful, not harmful. In other cases, physical trauma in the tumor area, said Dr. Auster, may even have a distinct beneficial effect: by destroying the cells, it may cause the tumor itself to heal...