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Needing a break from school, Duleep, a pre-med psychology concentrator, took a semester off in the spring of her sophomore year and returned home to Norwalk, Conn. to work in a doctor's office and with a physician's assistant at local Norwalk Hospital. It was there that she found herself constantly bumping into a "gorgeous" radiologic technologist, Kevin Hill...
...against nature--willingly. Admittedly, sex selection for family balancing cures no disease. In fact, though, no form of babymaking solves a medical problem. Sex selection, moreover, is medically benign in comparison with most reproductive technologies. No surgery is involved, and the entire process can theoretically be performed without a physician. Children born through this process can't be distinguished from other children...
Robert Hughes masterfully captures the spirit of motorcycling in his review of the museum exhibit of the big cycles in New York City [ART, Aug. 17]. As a 43-year-old emergency-department physician, I took a giant leap six years ago and made the transition from piecing bikers back together to straddling my own BMW R1100 roadster. These wonderful machines offer an escape for the soul and spirit, a place to relish life's victories and reconcile its defeats. But Hughes is correct: you'll have little use for one "unless you are prepared to go somewhat...
...program plots millions of words in a "high-dimensional space"; synonyms are close together, while words rarely used in combination are far apart. That allows the software to recognize synonyms, making no distinction between "doctor" and "physician," for instance...
...Tennis Partner thus becomes an anguished case history about a sadness too many will recognize: one person sets about destroying himself with addiction, and another gets addicted to trying to help him. The black hole is only deepened when, as Verghese writes, you subscribe to the physician's illusion that "if he attended to the pain of others, it would take care...