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A Year Inside a Medical Residency: Part 1

As new doctors spend their first days in the hospital, they learn what their lives are really going to be.[flickr/JoseGoulao]I am the director of a medical residency training program. Over the next…
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1426 words)

The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism

Raffles Place, Singapore … 'European withdrawal after the second world war was never in doubt.' Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images The British empire, George Orwell wrote, was "despotism with…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3754 words)
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