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Four years ago on a medical mission, Steven A. Ringer, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, came to the startling realization that babies were dying because Vietnamese hospitals lacked a basic technology...
...anyone or anything less urgently in need of parody than Jacques Cousteau, the saintly French oceanographer whose underseas documentaries, from the '50s through the '80s, did so much to make the world aware of the beauty and fragility of our watery ecosystem. But the sheer audacity of this basic joke--its awesome satiric irrelevance--is the crucial thing about The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. If you go with it, you'll love the film. If you don't, you'll just sit there wondering how (and why) Wes Anderson, the director and a co-writer (with Noah Baumbach), thought...
...breed of billionaires [Dec. 6] gave a good account of the country today. The media and the wealthy ?lite want to believe the real India is affluent and mainly concerned with the good things in life. But the true India consists of millions who are deprived of life's basic necessities. The country's rich have shirked their responsibility to the poor. The wealthy still find ways to avoid paying taxes, evidenced by the number of income-tax cases against well-known citizens. The affluent are also failing the country by not contributing directly to the society from which they...
...review also calls for basic science courses to be added in the third clinical year—something currently made difficult by the rotation system. Thibault says that now administrators must decide how to fairly compensate and recognize faculty who will teach the additional courses and mentor students...
...Genese?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Oct. 25]. The answer to the basic question of whether religion was created by man from cues sent from above or a sense of the divine evolved in us has long seemed obvious to Northern Europeans of my generation: man made God out of a need for a God and benefited from the invention. I was, however, surprised by the reverence the story showed toward religion. But then it struck me that this attitude might be a genuine example of the American mind-set--that religion really matters. That goes a long way toward...