2005.10.3=1[#276]:9.1=#(60x3+57)[US#57] Taiwan, Nuland. Tel tour deposit, arrange docs. #0. Human life. 1. Ancient Americans. 2. "Terror" Rspns.

Taiwan's legal position < Lin, Ho: http://tinyurl.com/d8g45 NATEA: http://natea.org/ North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association S Nuland: http://tinyurl.com/9zf7t 10th Planet moon: http://tinyurl.com/9yrva Cool with cloud then mild: Mei up 5:30 to Oakland, later sons off, 9am up! Mei back and tel to deposit tour's $800, 1pm off to class. Lung back, C-SPAN2: 9/29 "U.S.-Canadian Relations": Canadian Ambassador, The Honourable Frank McKenna [[ http://tinyurl.com/78hpl ]]: "We never talk about freedom...We cannot talk about...", over 2:25pm. Mei back, tel on tour again, pick Jun, Lung home late as usual. I arrange documents again. Mei just in, Jun computer, now 11:40pm. All bed 1:05am. #0. Human Life: 1. "How We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter", by Sherwin B. Nuland; Vintage (January 15, 1995); Knopf: 1st edition (January 25, 1994): http://tinyurl.com/bu4yw http://tinyurl.com/7hjq9 "" Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly The 1994 NBA nonfiction winner, Yale physician Nuland's study of the clinical, biological and emotional details of dying was a 14-week PW bestseller. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Drawing upon his own broad experience and the characteristics of the six most common death-causing diseases, Nuland examines what death means to the doctor, patient, nurse, administrator, and family. Thought provoking and humane, his is not the usual syrup-and-generality approach to this well-worn topic. Fundamental to it are Nuland's experiences with the deaths of his aunt, his older brother, and a longtime patient. With each of these deaths, he made what he now sees as mistakes of denial, false hope, and refusal to abide by a patient's wishes. Disease, not death, is the real enemy, he reminds us, despite the facts that most deaths are unpleasant, painful, or agonized, and to argue otherwise is to plaster over the truth. The doctor, Nuland stresses, should instill in dying patients the hope not for a miraculous cure but for the dignity and high quality of the remainder of their lives as well as of what they have meant--and will continue to mean--to family, friends, and colleagues. Nuland also has strong feelings about suicide and "assisted death": the doctor should be prepared psychologically and practically to help the longtime patient slip off the scene in relative comfort. William Beatty--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Kirkus Reviews A sobering look at the clinical reality of death by a physician who wants it known that ``we rarely go gentle into that good night.'' Nuland (Yale Medical School; Doctors, 1988) takes the position that if we know the truth about the physical process of dying, we can rid ourselves of both our fears and our false expectations. By becoming familiar with the common patterns of illness, he says, we'll be better prepared to make appropriate decisions about continuing treatment or calling it quits. Nuland selects several common causes of death--heart attack, old age, Alzheimer's, violence, AIDS, and cancer--and, with unrelenting honesty and unsettling detail, shows precisely what happens to the body involved. His account of the decline and death of his grandmother--with whom he shared a bedroom until he was in his late teens and she in her late 90s--is unforgettable, as is his story of his well-intentioned mismanagement of the care of his older brother when he was dying of cancer. The emotional impact of these stories is quite different from that produced by the author's coldly clinical accounts (``a specific sequence of events takes place in people who bleed to death. At first, they will usually hyperventilate...''); but by demonstrating that dying is usually a messy business, Nuland succeeds in demythologizing death. His message is that the dignity we seek in dying must be found not in our final weeks, days, or moments--but in how we've lived our lives. Strong stuff: not for those who prefer to cling to comforting illusions about life's end. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. "" 2. "How We Live", by Sherwin B. Nuland; Vintage (May 26, 1998): [[ from "The Wisdom of the Body" (Hardcover); Random House Value Publishing (November 17, 1998) ]]: http://tinyurl.com/d92sq http://tinyurl.com/cyvu4 "" Amazon.com After he won the National Book Award for How We Die, physician and popular medical writer Sherwin Nuland noticed that book critics kept referring to his next book, The Wisdom of the Body, as How We Live. Rather than fight the tide, he embraced the nickname and reissued the book. How We Live is a fascinating examination of the machinery of life. Dr. Nuland begins his meditation with a hair-raising account of a medical emergency that nearly ends in disaster: a 40-year-old woman almost bleeds to death on the operating table as he and other doctors struggle frantically to find the source of the hemorrhage. Eventually, Dr. Nuland and his team are able to locate the cause--a rare aneurysm of the splenic artery--and repair it. The patient survives. How We Live, Dr. Nuland tells us, grew out of the experiences of that night and his certainty that Marge Hanson lived because of her own will and the surgical team's will not to let her die. That "will to live" is what Dr. Nuland calls the Human Spirit, and spirit is very much a part of the body's wisdom. Each chapter of How We Live focuses on a different biological function, from the work of the lymph nodes to the process of pregnancy and birth. The heart, the nervous and digestive systems, the sex organs, and the brain are all explored and commented on with clarity and grace. But Dr. Nuland is not content with merely providing an operating manual for the body. He is in a constant state of wonder at what a miraculous and mysterious thing the body is: a dynamic system of parts all working in concert, infused with that fierce, intangible quality--the human spirit. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From Library Journal In this engrossing book, Nuland, author of the prize-winning How We Die, has turned his medical knowledge to the wonder of life. He offers a lucid anatomical and physiological tour of the human body, from cells and DNA to tissues and organs, reinforcing the sense of wonder with strategic case studies from his medical experience at Yale Medical School. Interspersed throughout is a discussion of the gnawing issue of what constitutes the mystery of life: How do biochemical interactions explain the quintessence of Homo sapiens? Nuland presents a formidable set of scientific facts and gives us much to ponder concerning our spirituality. Highly recommended. -?James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "" "" From Kirkus Reviews From the author of the National Book Awardwinning How We Die (1994), another eloquent, thought-provoking dissertation, this time on what we are. Having clarified the mysterious process of dying in his previous, bestselling book, surgeon Nuland now explores the wondrous miracle of living. The essence of human life for Nuland is the human spirit, a quality that is inseparable from the body. To understand the human spirit, one must look at the human body. Nuland does this with style. After opening with a dramatic demonstration of a body responding to a life-threatening event, in this case an aneurysm of the splenic artery, he considers each of the body's diverse processes, explaining their workings in clear and precise language. Each chapter is both a lucid anatomy or physiology lecture and a compelling story of a challenge to the organ or system being described. Thus in the chapter on the lymphatic system, a six-months-pregnant woman learns that her breast cancer has spread to her lymph nodes; ``A Child Is Born'' segues from conception and embryonic development to the very personal story of the birth of Nuland's own son; and elsewhere, a description of the digestive system is followed by a harrowing account of emergency surgery on a young diabetic woman with a near-fatal intestinal infection. He saves the mind for last, describing it as a property of ``unimaginable glory,'' which brings him back to the human spirit, a product of the mind's mutiple levels of awareness. ``There is no need to invoke either a higher power or magic. We need only invoke what is in our human cells--the highest power and the greatest magic that has ever awed a wonder-struck observer of its magnificence.'' To read this book is to share his awe. (8 drawings, not seen) (First printing of 200,000) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "" #1. "Americas: "Colonization of American Continent Began more than 23 Thousand Years Ago", The Epoch Russia Times; Sep 26, 2005: http://tinyurl.com/dwmet "" Analysis of DNA of human skulls and remains in South America shows, that in the genetic code of inhabitants of a new continent Mongoloid characteristics are present. This is a surprise, which remains an enigma for scientists, since inhabitants of Asia themselves started developing Mongoloid signs only about seven thousand years ago. "" #2. "Terrorism" Response: "Europe Learns, America Provokes", Rami G. Khouri, TomPaine.com; October 03, 2005; [[ Rami G. Khouri is editor at large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. ]]: http://tinyurl.com/bva2o "" After a week in Geneva and London and many discussions with European, American and Arab political activists, business people, politicians, diplomats and academics, I sense that the United States and the United Kingdom may be finally, slowly, moving towards catching up with the rest of the world on the issue of terrorism and how to deal with it. Ever since 9/11, the Western world as a whole has allowed the United States to define and lead the "global war on terrorism;" this process has proven to be only partially effective, and deeply flawed in both its analysis and results, as the quagmire of Iraq reminds us daily. The most obvious sign of the failure of the American-led global anti-terror war is the pervasive, frequently expressed, and growing sense of vulnerability that defines much of the West, especially the United States and Britain. The certainty that something equivalent to or bigger than 9/11 is going to happen is matched by the almost total inability of the U.S. and U.K. political leaderships to comprehend the real nature, causes and aims of the terror groups that target them, like Al Qaeda. Consequently, the U.S. and U.K. counterterrorism strategies are failing across the board. Fear and ignorance together are a deadly combination. "" "" Opposition to some Western values (materialism, sexual liberties, fragmentation of family ties, etc.) is common in the world, but is not the cause of the terror threat today. The cause comprises a much more complex series of forces that include defensive resistance to foreign troops in Islamic lands, rebellion against indigenous autocrats in the Arab-Asian region, fighting back against cultural and social alienation, resisting predatory foreign policies by Israel and Western powers, yearning to create an authentic Islamic society, and a few others. All these issues are certainly debatable—but they are very, very far from wanting to destroy the Western way of life. ""