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...treatises detailing his own experimental work in anatomy and physiology. Although he added much to medical knowledge, his studies were based largely on monkeys and farm animals and thus were frequently unreliable in their conclusions about human anatomy. But the sheer prodigiousness of Galen's output and the aura of infallibility that surrounded him served to perpetuate his errors and stifle further research. His work would remain unchallenged until the 16th century, as though the Hippocratic teaching of detailed, objective studies had been forgotten...
...taking exams not four days after my arrival in Cambridge. Though I now realize that the majority of them were the only examinations I would take at Harvard that wouldn't really count, they nonetheless felt like AP exams at the time. Yet even around the tests lies an aura of nostalgia. I still remember discussing with a new friend, later to be a Quincy House roommate, several questions from the first QRR test I was to fail. En route to lunch, we had a heated, if good-spirited, argument about standard deviations...
...intimidating at first. He has, after all, been portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that renowned Jobsian...
...written by Jeremy Brock and directed by John Madden, this British film has the regal, clubby aura of Masterpiece Theatre (which co-produced Mrs. Brown). Nicely, it lets viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen's long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle. It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors too little seen on this side of the Atlantic. Sher is a wily, puckish delight; and Dame Judi, her face clamped in anguish, radiates the stern ecstasy of grief. This queen of English understatement embodies Victoria...
First, some background. Researchers have known since the 1960s that not all headaches are the same, medically speaking. Tension headaches, which are the easiest to treat, are triggered by clenched muscles in the head and neck. Migraines, which generate a throbbing pain that is sometimes preceded by an "aura" and can last 12 to 24 hours, are produced by blood vessels that alternately constrict and expand. Cluster headaches are even worse than migraines--if you can imagine such a thing--and scientists suspect that overactive blood vessels play a role in them too. One of the hallmarks of cluster headaches...