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...sense the actors struggling to make this material work. Often they seem to resort to a technique of breathless delivery leading up to a climactic outburst, which is then followed by a quiet philosophical one-liner or two. This boiling-tea-pot method has great effects the first few times--Ray's march on the table, Dora's astonishing tirade on a swing--but can later get almost rhythmically repetitive. When Dora throws a tray to the ground suddenly after a discussion with her daughter, we are no longer shocked--there have been too many outbursts already...
...oath was quite out of place: in Hippocrates' time, there were no life-prolonging devices that could reduce a dying person to little more than a houseplant. His quotation of the oath with respect to euthanasia should be compared to a doctor's admonition to use the time-honored method of bloodsucking by leeches to cure high blood pressure. JOHAN ROORYCK Leiden, the Netherlands Via E-mail...
...method of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has pinpointed exactly where tiny TUMORS OF THE BREAST'S MILK DUCT are located in 95% of the women studied. Using mri, doctors can with greater confidence treat malignancies by removing a small amount of tissue in a lumpectomy, rather than performing a more invasive mastectomy...
...question for the [council] was one of method, not one of accepting gays in the military," said Eric M. Nelson '99, a council member who opposed the proposal...
...repeatedly said the standards--voluntary guides for teachers of history--have been widely denounced. In fact, they have been narrowly denounced by a small group of self-appointed critics whose remarks got wide media coverage. The newly revised edition of history standards will serve as an even more effective method to improve historical literacy. JOYCE APPLEBY, President-elect American Historical Association Los Angeles...