I'm studying for my gastrointestinal physiology quiz tomorrow at Eithan's house. He and his friends are studying for their physics final. They were laughing at the fact that a) they all speak fluent English b) they looked over my shoulder at the slides from class and the only word they understood was "&" and "atropine." hahhaa.
It was strange to me that they all knew atropine is used a treatment for exposure to nerve gas -- though maybe not so strange because they've all done military service? Apparently at the time of the Gulf War, Saddam used to launch missiles full of nerve gas into Israel. An alarm would go off and everyone would grab their gas masks and move into the shelters until it was over and the alarm went silent. Eithan and his friends clearly remembered this as a part of their childhood.
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