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...leave or were not sure whether they would leave if an evacuation order was given. But it was homeowners, at 39%, who were particularly stubborn. Lack of funds or transportation does play a role for stay-behinds, but according to the poll, a greater consideration is a vague belief that their home is built well enough to survive a storm--a justification offered by a whopping...
...cool folks." What advantage does that have? My premise is if you have a choice, try to work with human nature and not against it. Sadly, humanity has a lot of negative aspects, and the two I focused on were laziness and shallowness. It is my belief that we are aesthetically shallow. We are very aspirational; it really matters how we dress, what kind of car we drive and what our place looks like. That's why gossip mags, TV and movies are so aspirational - it's always about something that is slightly out of our reach ...I want...
...Naturopathy is an interesting belief system based on the premise that the myriad ingredients in whole plant parts cancel out the side effects of the "drug" in the plant. And many drugs do come from plants. The classic example is digitalis leaf. The foxglove plant contains a chemical, digitalis, that can regulate an irregular heartbeat. Digitalis, the purified chemical, has many well-known side effects, while whole foxglove leaf, say the naturopaths, does not produce these side effects because the other ingredients in the leaf "cancel" them out. Is this really true? I've got my doubts; I have treated...
...have never understood the belief of some that you can love employees and hate employers, but that seems to be what's driving this...
...rescue workers toiled under a roasting sun to extract the dead from inside the building. The victims had sheltered on the ground floor in the belief that a large pile of dirt and sand for construction would help protect them from air raids and shelling. But the earth had become their grave when they were buried beneath it by the force of the explosions. Two soldiers cautiously used spades to dig away the dirt. What was left of the building teetered heavily to one side and looked as if it would collapse at any moment...