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...Having Bliss become a queen of the Austin roller derby circuit certainly wasn't on Brooke's agenda either. But while mother and daughters are enjoying a girls' outing to a clothing/head shop in Austin - "pretty vases!" Brooke says approvingly to a case full of bongs - a trio of tattoo-ed and pierced women roll in on skates, mugging maniacally as they pass out flyers for the next weekend's derby. Most teenage girls would have taken refuge from these R. Crumb-style creatures behind the Doc Martens display but not Bliss. She is enraptured. (See the top 10 female...
...spent $23 billion on marketing, crafting an image of safety, health, and well-being through television and print ads as well as the aggressive pursuit of trusted doctors and health-care professionals. Indeed, the positive effects of many modern medical treatments including cough medicines, antibiotics in the case of some infections, and the majority of back and arthroscopic surgeries have been proven to be the result of culturally ingrained expectations of their usefulness. Not one of the listed treatments beats a less expensive alternative...
...case this seems disturbing news, know this—new treatments are not getting weaker; instead, the placebo effect is actually growing stronger. Drugs like Prozac have flunked follow-up studies on effectiveness when the placebo effect literally doubled in size. And the most comprehensive reviews of antidepressant medications have revealed that the placebo effect has grown significantly stronger since the 1980s...
House also quits his job. And the moment House leaves the room, Foreman (shocker) asks Cuddy to let him run the department. Cuddy asks him to take this case to see if he can handle the pressure. At that point, FlyBy was seething. But we also knew where the title of the episode came from...
...Administration may have little option but to play the diplomatic game, because its "or else" options are so limited. Russia and China remain deeply skeptical of the case for sanctions and are unlikely to approve measures with significant bite. What's more, Israeli and American hawks have long argued that no sanctions will prompt a regime that has invested so much in developing a nuclear program to simply reverse course; rather, they see the choices as boiling down to one between military strikes and accepting a nuclear-armed Iran. But military strikes are opposed by the Pentagon for two reasons...