MY GATEWAYTO THE WORLD

<正>A foreigner WeChats her way into life in China By Kylee MclntyreLast August,when all my paperwork was in place and it finally became clear to me that I was going to be working in China,I spent some time sitting alone in my kitchen,staring off into space because my life seemed too surreal.That period lasted for about 10 minutes,over which I slowly devolved into a state of panic.I didn't know the first thing about living in China.I immediately sent out a mass text to everyone I knew who'd spent even a little time in China.The responses came back almost instantaneously,telling me the same thing—get WeChat.I didn't know how a social media app was supposedly going to save my life,but then again,what did I know?It felt a little redundant downloading yet another messaging app in my kitchen in the     

The Manspreading Epidemic

<正>Miles(or kilometers)away from home,I find that it’s the similarities and not the differences between Beijing and my home country that strike me.Picture this.The wind from an incoming subway train ruffles your hair as you stand in line.As the doors open,your heart flutters—the subway is nearly empty!Eagerly,you take—no,you claim—your seat triumphantly and settle in for a leisurely trip.As     

Boxing Clever

<正>There are very few times in my life that I’ve managed to find myself in a bar at 8 a.m.on a Sunday,and yet,a few weekends ago,there I was,sitting on a bar stool,exhausted from very little sleep and extremely confused by all the sunlight pouring inappropriately in through the bar windows."You want a drink?"the bartender asked me."Do you have coffee?"I asked.He laughed and nodded.     

Acute Benztropine Intoxication and Fatality

A woman was found unresponsive with an empty bottle of Cogentin^® prescribed to another. Admitted to an area hospital, her condition steadily declined until death 29 h after admission. Following toxicological screening on hospital (admission) whole blood, the only significant compound detected was benztropine. Benztropine was confirmed at 0.28 mg/L – the highest antemortem blood concentration recorded in a case of toxicity or fatality uniquely associated with benztropine. A second serum antemortem specimen showed a benztropine concentration of 0.19 mg/L. Despite over 24 h in the hospital, benztropine was also found in the postmortem specimens collected at autopsy. Peripheral blood, central blood, liver, and gastric concentrations were 0.47 mg/L, 0.36 mg/L, 9.6 mg/kg, and 44 mg, respectively. These results indicate that benztropine exhibited a potential difference between whole‐blood and serum (plasma) concentrations. Additionally, in consideration of literature data, benztropine was found indicative of a compound prone to at least some postmortem redistribution.     

BUSINESS MARKET WATCH

Approved by the State Council, seven ministries on May 5 jointly promulgated the opinions on pushing forward medicine price reform. Previous market-oriented medicine price reform was once deemed a failure, primarily due to flawed administrative control. Without basic conditions for market-oriented pricing mechanisms in place, blindly pursuing marketization will turn out to be reckless and counterproductive,which may end up in the hands of related interest groups.     

Bifocal Perspective

It’s a typical Friday:I leave work,get on the subway and check WeChat to figure out where to meet my friends for dinner.My friend’s not in the mood to type,though,so I get a phone call a couple minutes later."Hello?"I answer,trying to make myself heard over the background noise,a     

Fatal Oral Methylphenidate Intoxication with Postmortem Concentrations

Methylphenidate (MPD) is a widely prescribed stimulant used primarily for the treatment for attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Suicide attempts involving MPD ingestion have been well described; however, deaths attributed solely to MPD ingestion have not been reported. A 62‐year‐old woman was found dead on her floor. The only discrepancy in among her medication quantities was that >three hundred 10 mg MPD tablets were missing. Analysis utilizing gas chromatography–mass spectrometry revealed elevated postmortem MPD peripheral and central blood, liver and vitreous humor concentrations. Considering both the central blood to peripheral blood ratio (0.89) and the liver to peripheral blood ratio (3.3), MPD does not appear subject to significant postmortem redistribution. With no other identifiable cause of death, we report what appears to be the first isolated MPD ingestion associated with a fatality.     

Constitutional law--New Jersey abortion statute unconstitutionally vague on its face

The old New Jersey abortion statute held that abortion before the quickening of the child was not indictable. The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Princeton, New Jersey, is a consolidation of 2 suits in the District Court questioning the constitutionality of the New Jersey statute. The court ruled that the women plaintiffs were without standing to raise the question of constitutionality. The court also ruled that because of the prosecutions for committing illegal abortions, the abortions, the physicians had a sufficient legal interest to argue that the statute deprives the physician of the right to practice medicine according to the highest standards of medical practice and violates the right to privacy of the patients.     

Determining sex of the posterior ilium from the robert j. Terry and william m. Bass collections

Morphological traits of the posterior ilium are commonly used for sex determination in bioarcheological and forensic skeletal analysis. This study was designed to compare the classification correctness of standard scoring systems and measurements of the posterior ilium, including using logistic regression, to develop new formulae to predict sex. Metric measurements and morphological scores for the preauricular sulcus (PS), the elevation of the auricular surface, and the greater sciatic notch width were recorded for 97 males and 101 females of both European and African ancestry from the William M. Bass and Terry Collections. Correct classification of sex was high using individual traits such as the greater sciatic notch score (88.4%), the presence or absence of a PS (78.8%), and the scoring of a present PS as 1, 2, or 3 (100%). Furthermore, an equation combining multiple traits of the posterior ilium had a high classification of 94.9%.