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...takes pleasure in recounting one triumphant moment of vindication. Last year he was approached by nuns from a Catholic mission hospital who asked him to help an extremely sick man whose chest was being eaten away by a subcutaneous amoebic infection that had not responded to drugs. Using a method learned from his father, N'donazi applied washed and crushed soldier termites to the open wounds. The patient, Thomas Service, made a remarkable recovery. In gratitude, he now appears at the clinic every Sunday bearing a gift for N'donazi. When a visitor asks how Service feels, the diminutive...
...could just as easily have been the "Czar" or "Grand Poobah"--taught my crew how to wax floors. To wax correctly, one must saturate one's mop with wax and then squeeze exactly 70 percent of the wax back into the bucket. There is no other correct method...
...ideal fine arts department is one that is not quite organized in the sense of a centralized method of study," says Shearman, who is also the Boardman professor of fine arts. "There is a danger in an intellectual climate where disciplines form antagonistic groups...
...says a problem arose in the past when areas of study were forced to "centralize" under a particular method. After World War II, Harvard identified itself with style criticism and connoisseurship, allowing art conservation and Spanish and medevial art studies to lapse...
...whole in this country," says Dr. Hook. "We don't know if youngsters in low-risk areas are just not having sex or if the virus hasn't got there yet." Without better information, researchers might find out only when more people start dying. That is not a scientific method that any country can afford...