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Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Guantánamo · LRB 15 December 2011
Mohammed el Gorani, the youngest prisoner held at Guantánamo, has written a memoir of his time there, the lead up to his imprisonment, and subsequent release years later. posted by gman at 2:02 PM - 52 comments
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My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candle Light by Matt Mulholland - YouTube
Matt Mulholland performing "My Heart Will Go On" on the recorder. That is all. (SLYT) posted by Rory Marinich at 10:43 PM - 10 comments
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WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog
A commentor on my previous post asked why I think MySQL is a toy.
I've actually blogged about that a number of times, but when wanting to point that out, I found that most of those posts point out just one thing, rather than having one post that enumerates them all. So let's remedy that, shall we?
There are many things wrong with MySQL, including, but not limited to: -
Having to think about the unthinkable - latimes.com
"I could show you case after case," said Dr. Neil S. Wenger. "I could bet you million-to-1 odds these patients would not want to be in this situation."
He was talking about patients in critical condition who are "attached to machines, being kept alive" in hospitals, many of them suffering.
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A common reason for that, said Wenger, director of UCLA's Health System Ethics Center, is that fewer than one-third of us make our healthcare wishes known in advance of critical illness or injury. So if we end up comatose after an accident, or with severe memory loss in old age, we're kept alive, regardless of the cost and regardless of what our wishes might be or how grim the prognosis. -
Autism services go to the families who fight hardest - latimes.com
From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother whose demands could not easily be dismissed.
DISCOVERING AUTISM
The series at a glance:
Sunday: An epidemic of disease or of discovery?
Today: Services go to those who fight hardest
Thursday: Families chase the dream of recovery
Friday: Finding traces of autism in earlier eras
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The result has been a bounty of assistance for Jonah: A behavioral therapist who works with him at home and comes along on family outings, a personal aide at school and specialists to design his curriculum, improve his speech and refine his motor skills.
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