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Chronic pain remains the biggest challenge because it is less well understood than acute pain. It may range from mild back discomfort to an amputee's agonizing phantom limb pain. While acute pain is essentially a healthy response to tissue damage, much of chronic pain is considered "neuropathic" -- the result of inappropriate nerve signals. Physicians now rely on physical therapy and behavioral techniques like biofeedback to battle chronic pain. In severe cases, they resort to antidepressants and local nerve-block injections, with varying results...
Wilson Phillips, gearing up for their first U.S. tour as headliners this summer, were smart enough to realize they couldn't make a career out of syrupy ballads devoted to young love even if they are all still in their early 20s. They have unabashedly gone out on a limb with this impressive follow-up album. They seem in no danger of tumbling...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position when ever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...communism (and it is the end, its temporary survival in China notwithstanding) is something we have not yet been able to assimilate. It is like suddenly being without a familiar pain, like the void left by a missing limb...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...