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...doctor in China and you want to alienate your patient as quickly as possible, there's one simple way: deny him antibiotics. "Patients often say they want antibiotics even when they don't need them, and then they get angry at the doctors when they try to explain why the drugs won't help," says Dr. Tong Zhaohui, vice director of the respiratory department at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital. To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better...
...Some Catholics see this as a perilous reversal of Pope John Paul II's 1996 declaration that evolution was "more than a hypothesis." The 60-year-old Cardinal told Time that his aim is to clarify misinterpretations of John Paul's stance, and counter those who use Darwin to explain everything. "I believe in dogmas of faith but I don't believe in dogmas of science," he said. Schönborn said he is particularly pleased that reports of his essay have been picked up by the European press: "The discussions in the United States on bioethics are much more...
...questioning fled the scene at the first lull in the conversation. One notable and charming exception was the four members of the U.S. Olympic softball team in attendance, who sat down, formal gowns and all, in the press dining room and dined on Caesar salad while trying to explain their efforts to get the sport reinstated to the Games...
...What has made patronymic names practical, however, doesn?t explain what made them fashionable. The revival of Nordic traditions may be a reaction to the cultural impact of globalization. Two years ago, some descendants of the Vikings took another major step into to the past when the pagan Asa religion was granted official recognition, granting tax benefits to those organizing the worship of Odin, Thor and other Norse gods. "It's all the same movement," says Senior Researcher Else Marie Kofod of the Danish Folklore Archives. "In these years, many old traditions are revived because there is a need...
...would if I needed a quick shorthand and I didn?t have time to explain the nuances. Personally, I would describe what I do as romantic comedies and light comic contemporary fiction...