Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis
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It's the jewel in the crown really for rural areas at the moment the health service, and I think if that disappears it is another nail in the coffin for rural communities.
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It's a commitment to Princeton more than to the arts program. The art program is what Princeton wants to do now, and I'm pleased to be a lead donor for that project.
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The new version has page previewing known as WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzy-wig, for What You See Is What You Get).
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I've heard that but he hasn't spoken to me yet.
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Alex is a professional negotiator and he's good at it. We've got 19 players off contract. Last year we lost 15 players. We won't lose that many again. We have an under-performing football team and we also have a pretty serious financial situation to deal with.
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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.
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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.