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...Some rules make sense. In Britain, for example, people installing gas boilers are required to undergo special safety training. But dozens of other regulations seem arbitrary or archaic. Several countries will only grant telecommunications service licenses to residents, for example. Belgium, for one, requires many types of service companies, including advertising agencies, to notify authorities any time they send people to Brussels to work for a client there, giving details of their names and how long they'll be working in the country. "You have to jump through all these hoops," complains Phil Murphy of Britain's Advertising Association...
...difficulty in proving whether such novels are implicitly pro-Nazi or anti-Nazi, Ryan admitted, is that under Nazism no explicit literary dissent in Germany was possible. Authors instead could either physically exile themselves or undergo “inner emigration,” a retreat into one’s own artistic world to combat the horrors of the world without. Modern readers must judge the validity of many authors’ post-war claims that their work under Hitler contained subtexts of anti-Nazi dissent, even when the texts themselves suggest otherwise...
...Wayne State University in Detroit, Dr. Randall Benson is studying 28 stroke patients to see if he can enhance their impaired speech after existing therapies are no longer effective. First they undergo a brain scan to see which of their language centers are still at least partially active. Then Benson targets those regions with rTMS. "Because things like language are regulated in the brain by a network, when we stimulate in one place, we find activation all over the brain," Benson says...
...first big change is a requirement to undergo credit counseling before filing for bankruptcy. That may seem inoffensive, but be warned: over the past few years, horror stories have emerged about credit-counseling agencies that funnel consumers into expensive debt-management plans. Last year the Senate urged the IRS and the Federal Trade Commission to step up enforcement against some outfits for abusing their nonprofit status...
...small molecule could be induced to bind to that pocket, it would inhibit the shape transformation the virus would need to undergo in order to infect target cells...