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...wearing the device, which captures two and a half minute clips every hour. Before returning the EAR to the researchers, participants had the option of deleting any recordings they didn’t want heard, Wang said. The audio files were then transcribed and coded to determine any common themes in participants’ conversations, locations, and activities related to smoking...
...prose and contrived analysis diminish his message. Volpi’s account of the shocking socio-political events of the late 20th century percolates through the narrative of Yuri Chernishevsky, whose enigmatic past is gradually unmasked, revealing uncanny links to other characters halfway around the world. Yuri is the common thread among three women who form the epicenter of Volpi’s overly complex tale, but its intricacies only flimsily conceal its lack of narrative integrity. While each woman’s personal travails are intertwined with major world events like the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...strange creature because in Spain it’s not really common for undergrads to do observerships or shadowing or anything like that,” Alvarez said. “At the end of the day many of the nurses would just call me ‘Doctor...
...break you out of a funk or your own anxieties than helping somebody else. And I think that we all have a tendency when times are tough to turn inward, but in some ways that can be more isolating. And I think being out there with people, making common cause, helping others, is a way of strengthening your own resolve and improving your own life...
...other direction. But it gets back to just the campaign as a model of what that can tap into. That's what people felt. It wasn't just the candidate, the confetti. It was also the fact that people could be in a room working together on a common mission, you know, you go to a rally and you're reminded that there are more people than yourself who believe in a certain set of values, and it renews your faith in your neighbors. And it gets you into conversations that you don't normally get into with one another...