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...offers help. Once again I realize I'm only one person and feel helpless to stop the suffering. Sandra Hoye Spokane, Washington, U.S. On a rare occasion, a book, a movie or, in this case, an article confronts you with enough power to jar you out of your comfort zone. Living a relatively privileged life, we can easily lose sight of basic freedoms we take for granted: to be able to shop at a market without the fear of a bomb going off, to trust that our justice system will treat us fairly and to have confidence that our families...
...about half of the rotator cuff surgeries now being done in the U.S. Every year more surgeons are switching over to the all-arthroscopic technique. This is a great example of patient-driven medicine; we are doing a more expensive, technically more difficult procedure primarily for short term comfort and patient acceptance...
...inventive lighting projects. Several of them, particularly Norwegian designer Tord Bontje's Blossom chandeliers in the shape of a branch (the small one is priced $15,500), have been widely copied. "We never just give money or just give product," she explains. "Instead, we say, Please go beyond the comfort zone with your creation. Make the crystals your...
...their pioneering products'. Founded by Kevin Plank, a college football player who was looking for a dryer, better-fitting alternative to a cotton shirt to wear under his pads, Under Armour initially produced nothing but underwear. It wasn't long before athletes began looking for the same breathability and comfort in their street clothes, pushing the company, based in Baltimore, Md., to expand its product line, which now includes looser-fitting shirts, pants and jackets designed to be worn on their...
...were suddenly and acutely conscious that this University is not a world apart but a part of the world and that that world was about to be at war. Five years later, we’re still at war, yet many of us have fallen back into the false comfort of what has been aptly dubbed “the Harvard bubble.” It’s a place where everything of importance is contained within ivy walls, and summed up in the Ec 10 textbook’s definition of self-interest...