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...that? I care more than they...
...About everything? Or about Twitter? About people. I'm sure plenty of them care too, but I just really care, which has always made me insanely good at customer service. I was that guy. In social media, there's no filter. When you say, "Hey, Newt Gingrich!" and he doesn't answer, you know that it's him not answering. I answer every e-mail. I'm probably about 2,800 behind right now, but that's not that bad considering I get over...
...effect on the side effects reported: the placebo and nocebo responses were just as robust before 1997 as after. That leaves scientists still looking for an answer. The Wired story suggested that the act of merely doing something good for yourself may stimulate the body's "endogenous health-care system," perhaps by inhibiting stress hormones. But that wouldn't explain why the same act might lead to phantom nocebo aches and pains...
Housing subsidies have side effects too. For one thing, they push us to buy rather than rent. There's a positive side to this, as homeowners tend to take better care of their property and their neighborhood than renters do. But there's a negative one too, particularly in times of economic upheaval like this, as homeownership becomes an economic ball and chain that keeps workers from moving to areas where jobs are more plentiful. Subsidies also tempt us to buy more house than we would otherwise, a wasteful use of capital - not to mention of the energy it takes...
Eight months into his presidency, Obama might want to give Moses a second look. On issues from health care to Afghanistan, the President faces doubts and rebellions, from an entrenched pharaonic establishment on one hand and restless, stiff-necked followers on the other. There's good reason, then, for Obama to heed the leadership lessons of history's greatest leader. Like presidential predecessors from Washington to Reagan, Obama can use the Moses story to help guide Americans in troubled times. From the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, the Civil War to the civil rights movement, Americans have turned to Moses...