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...clearly have some leads; in 20 years we'll probably understand it, but today pain remains a tantalizing mystery. For now if you want to avoid that knee replacement, the best I can recommend is that you is cheer up, pop an Advil, keep working, go to the gym, eat something and buy your spouse a present...
...risks of politicization of the investment process,” Summers made no references to the 2005 divestment campaign that led Harvard to sell its shares of a Chinese oil company, Sinopec, with ties to the Sudanese government. Instead, he mentioned issues like pressure for fund managers to avoid investments in tobacco companies and promote investments in underdeveloped inner-city areas...
...Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want to be awake or asleep for it." Those who choose sleep do so not because they want to avoid the pain--they won't be feeling it in either case--but because they just don't want to know they're under the knife...
...build on that accessibility, the talk show focuses on interviews with everyday people, not celebrities. Fans send in clips of themselves demonstrating how to shove tea lights into an eggplant or how to wash jeans to avoid flat-butt syndrome. Ray even tells jokes, the kind that start with "What do you call ..."--a type that might otherwise have left the air when Hee Haw was canceled. After a viewer competed against Ray to see who could carry more grocery items around her kitchen, Ray bear-hugged her and yelled, "We're buddies! We're buddies! We're hugging...
...worried that a serious confrontation with the U.S., possibly involving military strikes, would provoke a legitimacy crisis for the regime. All of which suggests that Iran may defy the West over its nuclear program for as long as it can manage, and adapt at the last minute to avoid a military clash. Until then, even the threat of sanctions could prove useful by offering Iran's President an external source of blame for the nation's economic problems...