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Wildfires result from a confluence of fuel, dryness and some kind of trigger. Each factor contributes to the severity of the blaze...
...women. Even Petitti acknowledges that HRT has a role to play in treating what she calls "the acute symptoms of menopause"--which is what the vast majority of women who take it are using it for. These symptoms include hot flashes, mood swings, sleep difficulties and vaginal dryness. If you are a woman who is having difficulties with the onset of menopause and find that HRT relieves your symptoms, there is no reason to stop, at least for now. But after the symptoms subside, usually within a year or two, ask your doctor whether you need to continue hormone therapy...
...won’t list all the little things I will miss the least about Harvard—sleeping through lecture, failing to sleep through section, the dryness of the campus before you turn twenty-one (ah, blessed day), the ruined faces of 5 a.m. computer lab-frequenters, the Lampoon (still not funny, people), the glum, interminable, yet snowless winters, the price of books at the Coop, the price of everything in the Square, the existence of Abercrombie and Fitch, the word ‘discourse’ and yes, even now, Cornel West...
From the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JIHAD, al-Qaeda's guidebook for terror: "BIOLOGICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some kind of microbes, viruses, that can withstand dryness for quite some time and still maintain its capability of multiplying...enough to coat the letter and guarantee it reaches its destination as deadly to the human being, either orally or through a scratch in the skin, and gets him infected with a contagious sickness that resolves into his death...CHEMICAL LETTERS...consist of a normal letter coated with some mustard agent or other poisons. This method is not yet deployed...
...truth is, though, that sex changes as our bodies age--and not all the changes are welcome. Many women going through menopause encounter physical problems such as hot flashes and vaginal dryness, while a number of men as they age have more trouble reaching and holding an erection. Often too, alas, the monogamy that lies at the heart of many long-term relationships begins to be equated with monotony...