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...June 1996, Bauby blinked out a letter to some 60 friends and associates to reassure them that his state was not vegetative. Editors at French publisher Robert Laffont, who had worked with Bauby before his stroke, were so impressed that they proposed he use the method to write a book about his condition. Bauby accepted and, composing and editing his prose before dawn, dictated entire sections of the book from memory, letter by letter, to Laffont employee Claude Mendibil...
...overweight residents (after New Orleans; Norfolk, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas) is something to boast about. I am aware that she would not understand the pride I heard in the voice of Arthur Bryant, the legendary Kansas City barbecue man, many years ago when he told me his method of preparing French fries: "I get fresh potatoes and I cook them in pure lard. If you want to do a job, you do a job." Still, the best way to deal with people like Ariel is to play along...
...prevent them from terminating their treatment plans prematurely. WHO officials estimate that full adoption of DOTS could slash the number of TB cases in Eastern Europe by half over the next decade and save up to 10 million lives. Furthermore, the organization said most countries could adopt the method at little additional cost to existing treatment strategies. Normally, TB medications must be taken for at least six months to be effective. But in many poor countries, people tend to stop taking the drugs the moment they feel better or to save money. This puts the rest of the world...
...likely follow the cloning, are ethical. Why do we consider human lives sacred and animal lives to be scientific machines? The lives of monkeys and sheep are as sacred to them as ours are to us. When will we incorporate a reverence for all sentient life into our scientific method? --Katja B. Hrones...
...named Ben, who is so desperate for a good grade that will get him into law school that he is "willing to do things I'll be ashamed of for the rest of my life." Leavitt perks up at that "things." Ben believes both the cheating and the required method of payment are sins. "After all," Leavitt muses, "none of the other boys for whom I'd written papers had ever expressed the slightest scruple about passing off my work as their...