Accident and Strange Calamity in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’

This Stranger, My Son

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but ...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

How Relevant Is This to My Practice?

234 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Changi General Hospital, 2Central 24-HR Clinic Group, Singapore Correspondence: Adj A/Prof Tiing Leong Ang, Chief and Senior Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889. [email protected] HOW RELEVANT IS THIS TO MY PRACTICE? Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a...

Creating a Calamity

It takes a lot to create a calamity in the commercial arena. Transactional attorneys spend a good deal of their time drafting around the calamities of the past. The Supreme Court’s decision in Till v. SCS Credit Corp., 541 U.S. 465 (2004), nevertheless deserves the label. The issue before the Court was straight-forward—how should bankruptcy courts ascertain the appropriate interest rate in a Ch...

A 'singular calamity'.

WATrISHAM is a small village near the centre of Suffolk. In 1762 an event occurred there which is commemorated by an inscription in the north west corner of the parish church. The tablet reads as follows: Ipswich Journal on 17 April. On 1 May a statement was published in the same paper that 'as the truth of that very melancholy and extraordinary case. .-. is doubted by many' a more complete acc...