So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms

patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and

wondering who I'm in, what I’m in for. My

eyes close nostalgically when I remember

[5] how I once drifted in my translucent body

bag, floated dreamily in the bubble of my

thoughts through my private ocean in slow-

motion somersaults, colliding gently against

the transparent bounds of my confinement,

[10] the confiding membrane that vibrated with,

even as it muffled, the voices of conspirators

in a vile enterprise. That was in my careless

youth. Now, fully inverted, not an inch of

space to myself, knees crammed against

[15] belly, my thoughts as well as my head are

fully engaged. I’ve no choice, my ear is

pressed all day and night against the bloody

walls. I listen, make mental notes, and I’m

troubled. I’m hearing pillow talk of deadly

[20] intent and I’m terrified by what awaits me, by

what might draw me in.

I’m immersed in abstractions, and only the

proliferating relations between them create

the illusion of a known world. When I hear

[25] "blue," which I’ve never seen, I imagine some

kind of mental event that's fairly close to

"green"—which I’ve never seen. I count

myself an innocent, unburdened by

allegiances and obligations, a free spirit,

[30] despite my meagre living room. No one to

contradict or reprimand me, no name or

previous address, no religion, no debts, no

enemies. My appointment diary, if it existed,

notes only my forthcoming birthday. I am, or

[35] I was, despite what the geneticists are now

saying, a blank slate. But a slippery, porous

slate no school-room or cottage roof could

find use for, a slate that writes upon itself as

it grows by the day and becomes less blank. I

[40] count myself an innocent, but it seems I'm

party to a plot. My mother, bless her

unceasing, loudly squelching heart, seems to

be involved.

Considere os seguintes sentidos possíveis para a palavra slate.

I - A piece of rock laminated into shingles, used for roofing or siding.

II - A tablet used for writing on.

III- A list of candidates for nomination or election.

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TRAINING PARENTS TO WORK IN HOSPITALS BENEFITS PREMATURE BABIES

Parents of premature babies in intensive care units can be put to work providing basic nursing care – not to save hospitals money, but because it may help the babies get better. Newborns who get parental care seem to put on about 8 per cent more weight over a three-week period.

While most hospitals let parents stay with their babies in intensive care, they are often treated as visitors, says Karel O’Brien of Sinai Health System in Toronto.

Her team has investigated offering training to parents of premature babies, so they can take on some of their child’s care while in hospital. This included feeding, giving oral medicines, taking their temperature, and completing charts. However, some care, including giving injections, was reserved for medical staff only.

In a study of about 1800 babies born seven weeks early or more, the team found that after three weeks, babies whose parents underwent this training gained on average an extra 2 grams of weight a day when compared with similar babies at other hospitals.

To provide such care, participating parents had to be at the hospital for at least six hours per day, five days a week, and hospitals had to be able to give them somewhere to sleep.

It’s possible that parents are more likely to opt for this if they’re more attentive or committed in other ways, so the training and care itself may not be the cause of the babies’ improved weight-gain.

But as long as parental care doesn’t do any harm, it’s reasonable for hospitals to make it an option, says Chris Gale of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.
WILSON, Clare. Training parents to work in hospitals benefits premature babies. Disponível em: <https://www.newscientist.com/article/2160599-training-parents-to-work-in-hospitals-benefits-premature-babies/amp/>. Acesso em: 07/02/2018. Adaptado.

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Human beings have adapted to the physical world not by changing their physical nature but by adjusting their society. Animals and plants have made adjustments, over long periods, by the development of radical changes in their very organisms. Hereditary differences meet needs of various environments. But among humans, differences in head form and in other physical features are not, in most cases, clearly adaptive. Nor is it clear that mental capacities of races are different. As far as we know, the races are equally intelligent and equally capable of solving their problems of living together. The varying ways of life, it seems, are social and learned differences, not physical or inherited differences. It stands to reason, therefore, that man's adjustment to his surroundings should be studied in custom and institution, notin anatomy and neural structure.

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In 2017 the protestant church is
celebrating an important event: the 500th
anniversary of the Reformation

On October 31, 2017 protestants will celebrate that historic day when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, an act which shook the religious world of the time.
The 500th Reformation anniversary also means a great deal to Heidelberg. The then capital of the Kurpfalz (the Electoral Palatinate) played an important role in the spreading of the new doctrine. On April 26, 1518, Martin Luther visited Heidelberg, residence of the Elector Princes. As in Wittenberg, he proclaimed his 95 theses and defended himself before the General Chapter of the Augustine monks at the famous Heidelberg Defense. The commemorative Luther plaque marks where the Augustine abbey once stood. In 1563 the famous Heidelberg Catechism was formulated, the most significant confessional document in the reformed Christian faith the world over.
Disponível em: <http://www.heidelbergmarketing.de/en/culture/500-years-reformation.html> Acessado em 13 de outubro de 2017

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By the 900s, Islamic medicine was the most
sophisticated in the world. One of the most lasting
contributions of Islam was the hospital. Funded
by donations called waqf, public hospitals treated
the sick, provided a place to convalesce and
recover, housed the mentally ill, and provided
shelter to the aged and infirm. Jewish and
Christian doctors, in addition to Muslim
physicians, worked in these institutions. Hospitals

allowed the poorest to benefit from the knowledge

of outstanding doctors: beggars in Baghdad might
be operated on by Rhazes, the great surgeon of the
city hospital.
As was increasingly the case in Christian Europe,
great cities in the Muslim world competed to
house such institutions, hoping to attract the best
teachers and books. The Ahmad ibn Tulun
Hospital, one of the first of its kind, was built in
Cairo between 872 and 874. Perhaps the best
known hospital of the Islamic world, Al-Mansuri
Hospital, was also built in Cairo, by the sultan

Qalawun in1285. Four wards, each one

specializing in different pathologies, were reputed
to house thousands of patients. The buildings

surrounded a courtyard cooled by fountains.

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