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...Scientists," writes "One of Them," "are the mercenaries of modern warfare. Almost wholly devoid of humanitarian impulses, they consider their cold and analytical search for scientific knowledge more important than any current affairs of mere mortals. If a scientist is given a chance to pursue his line of research unmolested, he doesn't care about the type of government he is working under, or the condition of the people, or anything else. Science is the thing, not people...
...pain an inevitable part of childbirth? One grin-&-bear-it school of doctors says it is.* But the search for ways to relieve the mother's pain is as old as civilization. The ancient Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...
...story of a clown, Auguste, who throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself. "To be yourself, just yourself, is a great thing . . . You try neither to be one thing nor another, neither great nor small, neither clever nor maladroit . . ." Auguste's search for his true identity is a dangerous quest and it ends fatally, but not before he has discovered that "perhaps he was all right just as he was . . . The mistake he had made was to go beyond his proper bounds...
...gaiety-or for that vague value, romance (of which Americans never seem to get enough at home). Some were going, as Emerson put it, "to learn what man can" -to be humbled or inspired by a culture of which their own was part and product. Some went in search of clarity in a confusing world, and some simply went for a look at their father's house...
...spent as little as two of the usual four years in undergraduate pre-med training, while others were forced to stay as many as 13 months in third year medical instruction. And to top it off, the grads have had to compete with returning veterans in their search for internships...