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...pains often turn out to have what we call radiculopathy, which affects the spinal nerve roots. Sciatica is a well-known term for one type of this. Although caused by pressure on a nerve in the back, there might be very little or no back pain. Patients sometimes just cannot believe there is nothing wrong in their leg. Tim could have been vague about his story, or he might have been so wound up that the pain seemed to involve the whole leg, not just the one spot. In any case, the chain that owned...
...preoccupation with race, which runs through its history like a varicose vein, half-buried and chronically painful. Just ask disgraced talk-show host Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team, or any Arab American trying to board a flight. Hapa Girl is a reminder that Americans cannot have too many reminders of the un-American things they do when they're afraid...
...American Crossword Puzzle Tournament is held every year, and this past March was our 30th one, and it was the first one after the movie. We had a 40 percent increase in attendance in one year. I have had to move the event for 2008 because we simply cannot fit into that hotel anymore. We are going to Brooklyn next year. 6.FM: Do you have a favorite English word of the day?WS: Well I have a favorite English word of all time. The word is U-C-A-L-E-G-O-N. It’s a neighbor...
...studies go, Wang hardly sees any conflicts, because to him science cannot explain his faith...
...resorting to these new groovy hip tricks—in this case, sexing up the anti-sex movement—bearers of socially conservative messages are, to a degree, betraying their own causes. The worst effect of this is that it is to suggest that an established value cannot be maintained in modernity unless it takes on the style and rhetoric of its counter-movement. If an old value cannot be sustained through historical memory, there must be an extremely compelling reason—beyond say, a mostly controllable health risk—for its defense to continue...