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...depend utterly on healing - unexplainable, amazing, taken-for-granted automatic mending of cut skin - for any and every success we can possibly have with any surgery. We rely on it much as a farmer depends on his hard, dry seeds to turn into green plants, but our need is a little more intense: If the healing miracle fails, what I accomplish in surgery is only to hurt someone who came to me for help. And I'm likely to feel more than emotional pain - plenty of juries can be convinced that an un-healing wound is sure evidence of malpractice...
...call on whether to card can also depend on a person’s purchase...
...students in an institution where the real power lies with administrators. Nevertheless, this is far from a statement proclaiming the UC useless. It has had many successes as an advocacy organization in past years that have improved the quality of student life immeasurably. Those successes, however, almost always depend on the goodwill of faculty and administrators to student concerns—particularly in areas where the UC cannot make do solely through its own initiatives. On issues where compromise is not an option for University Hall, the UC is impotent.This outcome was foreseeable from the beginning. While the UC?...
...that prediction is to prove true then much will depend on the reaction of ordinary Pakistanis. Musharraf is deeply unpopular. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out at protests in support of Chaudhry earlier this year. But it's possible that with the ousted chief justice and other anti-Musharraf judicial leaders under arrest popular resentment may not grow sufficiently hot. Another potential rallying point is former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan in October for the first time in eight years as part of a deal with Musharraf that would allow her to run in parliamentary elections...
...humans need sentiment too. TV critics may bemoan the "fakeness" of some reality or nature shows. But as viewers, we depend on that manipulation to provide the order, sense and purpose that the universe fails to. "Behind the desert's great beauty," as narrator Sean Astin says just before the camera pans to Mozart's body, "lies a frightening indifference for life...