Word: decentering
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...FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...Oklahoma case, it may have been a nobler motive that tripped up McGee. "McGee is a good surgeon and a decent man," maintains his whistle-blowing research nurse, Mathias. "But he became a biased investigator. He thought he had found the cure for cancer. He really wasn't interested in running a clinical trial; he wanted to administer his drug"--even if that meant breaking the rules to get there. Although McGee said he had tested his drug properly on animals, he had not; the data he submitted in his original protocol came from animal studies of a different drug...
...many of the patients in Dr. Michael McGee's vaccine trial, Cherlynn Mathias already had that attitude--though she has paid a price for her action. Facing nasty criticism from many of her colleagues at the University of Oklahoma and worried she would not be able to get decent medical treatment in Tulsa, she finally moved to Texas last August. Sometimes she wonders whether she did the right thing by sending that letter to the OHRP, but she is proud of the way the university responded...
...wouldn’t label myself particularly vain, but I try as hard as the next gal to look decent for a black tie event or a hot date. Hair: big. Clothes: elegant…or at least seductively tight. Breath: casually minty. Now for the make-up, the frosting on the cake that makes the average person look extra special for an extra special occasion. Finding the right make-up for my skin tone—somewhere between exotic, African-American, dark cocoa and kinky-headed Negro black—is, to be sure, an exhausting process. It?...
...have a lot of confidence about this weekend,” Brown said. “Yale’s pitching has been decent this year, but I think our hitting is going to come around...