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...there is also a surgical approach to fixing a broken wrist; it's had its place for decades. It was always a judgment call though: back in the day we sometimes would operate if the fracture was really bad. It generally worked out satisfactorily, but tellingly, many had learned not to operate when the fracture was really, really bad. The surgical results when the wrist was truly blown to bits often seemed to be worse than the results with closed treatment. The body can get it right - or at least more right than a surgeon can - once in a while...
...first time nutrient sensitized screening has been used to identify drug targets in human cells,” said Vishal M. Gohil, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-lead author of the study. “People never thought it was possible to do this approach on the scale...
...with China on other fronts, like stabilizing the global economy. Last fall Obama delayed meeting with the Dalai Lama when he was in Washington to avoid angering China ahead of his first visit to the country. That move was criticized by some as too deferential, as was Obama's approach to human-rights issues during his three-day trip, which Chinese activists called disappointingly limited...
...around the release of Goldstein’s newest novel, “36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.” According to Pinker and Goldstein, the novel straddles both sides of the argument on God’s existence, creating a holistic approach to the question of whether religion is necessary in order to have morality...
...early 1990s, the original Perot combined an assault on the way government did business with a demand that it climb out of debt. Like the public itself, Perot believed there was a commonsense, nonideological way to cut the deficit, if only the two parties would stop bickering. His approach was simpleminded and ego-driven, but it forced both parties to make serious efforts to address the problem, and by the mid-'90s they had come together on behalf of fiscal discipline...