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...Graham says that work doesn’t have to be really hard to be meaningful. Even without this discomfort, she says, the volunteer can still get something significant out of the experience, while also providing meaningful help...
...Even today, Asterix stories seem to chime with the country's discomfort with globalization as it rails at the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialism or Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Commentators refer to France's 'Asterix syndrome', a tendency to withdraw from the rest of the world, yet rejoice in splendid isolation...
...retrains the immune system, fooling it into thinking that the donor tissue is now part of the self," says Sachs. One patient was able to stop taking antirejection drugs as early as nine months after his surgery?though not without some discomfort as the body adjusted. "There is no question that during the initial phase, the patient has a lot more difficult time. But they trade that difficulty with what is beginning to look like lifelong suppression [of rejection]," says Sachs...
...cities like San Francisco or New York," says Jill Renee Brummond, who does marketing and event planning for local clubs. "People are focused on color here. Atlanta as a whole is set in its ways." Alison White, a black, 30-something medical recruiter, agrees: "There's a lot of discomfort [and] people don't feel comfortable being around other races outside of work. There's a lot of ignorance and preconceived notions about other races, so people stick with what they know...
...also found that spousal hand-holding had an effect in an entirely different part of the brain: the right anterior insula, which responds to the threat of pain by calling your attention to the part of your body that's in danger, increasing the amount of discomfort you ultimately feel. In Coan's study, the right anterior insula of happily married women stayed relatively quiet. "This suggests," he says, "that your spouse may function as an analgesic...