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Showing posts with label health problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health problems. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

How have I been able to walk, drive and climb stairs?

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Two months ago, my left leg was pinned to the ground by a branch of a felled walnut tree that I was cutting up with a chainsaw. A few weeks ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Checkup

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Many years ago, back in Paris, one of my former employers told his assembled staff: "The challenge of becoming rich involves two aspect...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Victims of bad water and sanitation

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At a first rapid glance, this spectacular photo seems to depict a military cemetery, but it's probably simply a manufacturer's stora...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Deadly palm oil

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In certain domains, the environmental and well-being awareness of my Australian compatriots is far in advance of the French situation. It...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Public health

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Seeing these proud and happy and faces, I feel like opening a bottle of champagne and raising my glass: Amérique, à ta santé! [Health warni...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Awaiting the plague

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The current swine-flu situation provides an opportunity of experiencing the kind of anguish that must have pervaded societies in the olden ...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Gene business

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In the fascinating domain of modern genetics , one of the most exciting activities costs next to nothing. I'm referring to the possibili...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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