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...what motivates them, what they're afraid of, what they're hoping. I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning...
...Americans who are overweight. At 5 ft. 2 in. and 265 lb., I took my health in hand by putting myself on a diet and exercising and lost 140 lb. in about a year. I went from a size 26 to a size 4 and stabilized my cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar at normal levels. My message is this: I did it on my own, and so can you. You don't need a lot of money, special food or special equipment. All you need is determination. Keri Kegley, LITTLE ELM, TEXAS...
...sure, I get the point: if the patient is dying, you give him blood right now and worry about his cholesterol count later. Krugman says, plausibly, that it's not even a question of long run vs. short run: we'll also be better off in the long run if we can escape the effects of this immediate crisis. If the patient dies, he's not going to be healthy in 10 years no matter what...
...other words, Walt must both be a Man with No Name, a Dirty Harry, and find a cause beyond duty or blood sport to atone for his Korean gunmanship. This fits with Eastwood's rounding out of his familiar character in later films--challenging the audience to accept "Cleent" when he does surprising things. In Million Dollar Baby, killing was an act of mercy. Here, for Walt to put his life on the line, in a kind of suicide mission, is a final act of contrition...
...found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left behind by the terrorists, and later found drugs in their blood," the Telegraph was told by one official, whose nationality and relation to the investigation were not specified. "This explains why they managed to battle the commandos for over 50 hours with no food or sleep." (See the terrorism in Mumbai...