Word: barings
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...Finally, Don himself remembered that he used to play with the mercury from his office blood-pressure machine?with his bare hands - back before we knew much about the toxicity of mercury. There was a big "aha" from the neurologists. It was a subtle, localized brain disease related to mercury poisoning. It was a diagnostic victory, won largely by a sick brain, Don?s brain, trying to cure itself...
...forensic pictures show a family lying together on a grass mat. Agnes Ketheeswaran, 23, is in a pink sarong and green skirt, her husband Palachamy, 25, is bare-chested, and their two sons?four years old and four months old?are naked between them. Under Palachamy's prone head is a shallow well of blood. On the shiny brown bellies of his two dead boys is blood from their mother, who has been shot in the face. The murders were part of a wave of executions on May 13 on the remote northern Sri Lankan island of Kayts. That evening...
That sloppiness, among other things, widens the price gap with foreign hospitals that entrepreneurs are exploiting. United Group Programs (UGP) of Boca Raton, Fla., a third-party administrator that sells a low-premium, bare-bones form of coverage called a mini--medical plan, this month began promoting Bumrungrad Hospital as a preferred provider to its customers. Employees of self-insured businesses who use the more conventional plans designed by UGP will also have access to the Thai hospital. This means that UGP offers the option of partly or fully covered medical tourism to some 100,000 people, including those...
...life, is the evidence to the contrary? Reasonable people cannot disagree about the untruths enmeshed with the world-altering events of the last few years. And yet daily we practice tolerance toward untruth. Dismissal of historical fact, degradation of interpretive principle, plain concepts purposefully eroded, impudence toward empirical sciences; bare and slanderous celebration of ignorance itself—we call these things “politics” and change the subject. We are polite to a fault, and beyond. Each day the student, the dean, the professor make an intellectual choice: Veritas, or your manners;,Veritas, or your professionalism...
...cartwheel through space. Employing Napurrula's usual technique, artisans prepared a groundcover of ocher-like red, over which they traced the artist's design of a sacred site near Kiwirrkura; infilling the rest with daubs of white. In this way, the blood and bones of her country are laid bare...