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...dispute was born of good intentions. In 1994, when China produced more oil than it consumed, Beijing allowed county governments in Shaanxi to drill for oil in an effort to alleviate chronic poverty. The counties sold mineral rights to citizens for around $10,000 per square kilometer. Entire villages often pooled their money to invest in rights and rigs. More than 6,000 wells were drilled, and soon the "pump worms," as derricks are known in the local dialect, yielded crude. "I saw people building new houses, hiring teachers for their children," says Liu, who in 1999 formed a company...
...interesting legal strategy: persuade the prosecutors of your predilection for dirty sex with women of age. That’s all well and good as cockeyed legal strategy, but I want more than mediocre sex-with-me-is-like-great-chronic metaphors. (I’m serious. This is entirety of track 12: “Sex Weed...
...chronic fatigue...
...deal with a chronic problem I have. I would talk to the patients in my office and lead off the discussion by saying, "You're here not for an operation, but for an opinion." And I continued to be struck at how many misperceptions cloud the view that patients have. I realized that the only way I was ever going to really make a dent, an epidemiologically significant dent, was to write a book of this nature that explains what I think I know about how the human body works in a way that people could understand...
While undergoing tests for a chronic back problem last winter, Republican Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida composed a letter intended to dispel doubts about her political future. "Dear Friend," it read, "I feel great! . . . We are about 30 days behind schedule in our fund raising . . ." The note looked as if it had been handwritten, yet if Hawkins had personally scribbled all 40,000 letters that went out, terminal writer's cramp would have set in. In fact, the note was run through a high-tech copier that duplicates the script...