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...than the average 18-year-old freshman. Myat San, from Singapore, faced two and a half years of service after graduating from high school. And the first three months of training were no walk in the park. “A lot of people come out with injuries, heat stroke, broken bones, broken ankles,” he says. Myat San left the army after two years to attend Harvard on a military scholarship. When he returns to Singapore, he plans to complete his term and work for the government for five years. Shira Kaplan...
...People need to think about the possibility of these disruptions now, Sandman argues. What if you couldn?t get to a pharmacy for three months to fill a prescription for high blood pressure medication, placing you at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke? Have you thought about where and how you?d take care of someone in your family who got sick, to avoid infecting anyone else in the house? What if enough truck drivers who deliver chlorine to water treatment plants get sick that the water in your community is no longer treated? Is there a stock...
...future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
DIED. KIRBY PUCKETT, 45, Hall of Fame outfielder who led the Minnesota Twins to World Series titles in 1991 and 1994; of a stroke; in Phoenix, Ariz. Before Game 6 of the 1991 Series, he famously told team-mates, "Tonight I'm drivin' the bus, boys," then hit two homers to force a Game 7--which the Twins won to capture the title...
...years, their best measure for how dangerous excess weight could be was body mass index (BMI), a formula that combined height and weight. A high BMI meant that you were carrying too much body mass for your height, putting you at risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, heart disease or stroke. The problem, as physicians quickly found out, was that body mass includes not just excess body fat but muscle as well. So fit people with dense muscle mass would consistently register as overweight and unhealthy. That led Dr. Jean-Pierre Despres, of Laval University in Quebec, to champion another measure...