Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 8 · column 2 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved

sharing, the importance of helping each other, and compromise,” noted McCue. His three sisters were all math whizzes. John had inherited his engineer father’s aptitude with his hands. His sisters helped him with math and he would help them fix their bikes.
“I loved to fix clocks, cars and bikes. Gears, anything mechanical interested me. My first stereo set, I built myself. The fact that I liked to work with my hands may explain why I first became a physical therapist,” remarked McCue.
There was in him a Godgiven orientation that ’ never waned from the time McCue was in the third grade when he started independently reading books on anatomy. “From as young as I can remember, I was interested in medicine, but it didn’t come from within my family.” After getting certified as a physical therapist, McCue decided to go to medical school. The US Air Force needed doctors in the 1980s, so Uncle Sam paid his medical school expenses at Rutgers University. When payback time came, the Air Force wanted him to do his medical service in Japan.
Eastern influence
McCue didn’t particularly want to leave America, having just started a family. But choices were not his to make. Despite initial misgivings,
95.6%