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...realistic. Most surgeons are quite realistic about capitalism. We see its very essence, the power of monetary incentive, over nearly everyone in our world. We see it in the extra lab tests that please patients as well as pay (and protect) doctors, in the fleet of blank-faced bureaucrats floating to their next paychecks on rivers of inane hospital regulations, and in the TV drug ads for restless legs, erectile errors and feminine itches. We know what they're after...
...When we got there, it was pretty much a blank page,” Foote said...
...researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of why Icelanders consistently say they are content in a country they have nicknamed the "Ice Cube." I happened to live on the Ice Cube at the time, but I was taken aback when Weiner asked me, point blank, "Are you happy here...
Others saw in the devastation a blank slate on which Greensburg could build back better by building back greener--with energy-efficient homes and offices powered by Kansas' abundant wind and biofuel resources. The community could become a mecca for environmentalists, drawing green businesses and new jobs. Daniel Wallach, an entrepreneur from a nearby town, formed the nonprofit Greensburg GreenTown shortly after the tornado to promote this transformation. "It could be a living laboratory," he says, "to demonstrate to the rest of the country and the world what a town of the future could look like...
...never regained its composure in the second. “We had that great start, and then we look up and we’re like, what happened?” junior forward Evan Harris said. “We had a lot of point blank opportunities that we just missed.” The first minute of the second proved to be a harbinger of things to come for Harvard. After making a layup to tie the game at the onset of the second, sophomore Jeremy Lin missed a layup, which was followed by two wide open threes that...