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...engineer. She would ignore no theory of any culture or any quack, regarding her very common brand of knee pain. On and on she went as I retreated further within. I marveled, sitting there silenced by her diatribe. Hers was such a fully orbed and vigorous self-concern that it possessed virtue in its own right. Her complete and utter selfishness was nearly a thing of beauty...
...Global Healing When I saw the cover story on breast cancer at a newsstand, I instantly picked up the magazine [Oct. 15]. Breast cancer is indeed becoming a global concern and strikes women regardless of age or socioeconomic level. My fiancé, who is 32, is one of the survivors. She had surgery, received chemotherapy, went bald and took medicines mentioned in your report such as tamoxifen and Herceptin. She is currently healthy and living a better life than before. Having a strong will to survive means you are on your way to being cured; we leave the rest...
...people are getting consulting fees on a basis of individual operations performed, they have an incentive not to evaluate whether you need the operation,” he said. “That’s the concern...
...pressures seem almost impossible to balance. Forget figuring out what we’re going to do with our own lives; now we have to save the planet as well. The thorny questions of morality raised in speeches like Gates’s are most readily accessible through the concern at the forefront of every senior’s mind: Where will I be working next year...
...would commit to them. I thought a Harvard degree would be useful in ways that weren’t that.” Ideally, he says, students would plunge right into service on an equal level with those they are helping, and address issues like salary as a secondary concern...