THE NEW-FIRE CEREMONY AT WALPI

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Beyond the White Coat Ceremony

Note from Anna B. Reisman, Co-Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System: This issue inaugurates a new feature: selected writings from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghes...

Secret Ceremony

Fire and Reconstruction at Lobato Bridge in New Mexico

historic preservation. resulted in the D&RG abandoning the goal of building south to El Paso and focusing instead on building west to the mining camps of Leadville, Colorado, and the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.4 In 1879 reconnaissance surveying was conducted, and contracts were let for the construction of the San Juan Extension. By April 1880 service was extended from Alamosa, Col...

Fire Under Fire: Proton Probabilities at Perihelion

This paper computes the probabilities that the near-Sun flyby mission, Fire, might be bombarded by high energy protons from solar-activity related proton acceleration lying beneath Fire’s perihelion altitude of three solar radii. Although the very largest interplanetary proton events are commonly believed to be caused by interplanetary shocks, this paper assumes the working hypothesis that ther...