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...gate. In fact, it doesn t go anywhere. It is produced where it is perceived: in the brain. The stimulus arriving from the sensory nerve alerts the brain, which produces the pain experience on its own. The pain perceptions are like the tracks on a record or compact disk, waiting to be "played." The arrival of the nerve stimulus, as Gawande writes, simply hits the play button. "And," he adds, "a great many things can press the button...
...lacked sufficient protection in the form of anti-viral programs had to suffer both the loss of countless hours as they attempted to restore their papers and the supercilious comments of their peers. The number of students who do, indeed, back up every assignment they have on a disk is quite small. Harvard students prize efficiency, and so due to the rarity of complete computer failure, not many expend the effort required to insert a disk...
...remains chock full of people who, upon hearing you gripe about the loss of your eightpage final paper for a moral reasoning class, question ingenuously "Did you back it up on a disk?" when really, had you done so, your entire motivation for complaining would have been destroyed...
...roommate, entryway-mates, and pre-froshwatched, he tried to restart his computer and gotonly a blank screen with the message, "Disk BootFailure," he said...
...long. With good reason. The process: Gooey bread dough is mixed with sugar and tossed into a greasy kettle full of stagnant oil. The dough sizzles and floats about in its little pool of fat until crispy on the edges and golden brown. The product: a fluffy, floppy disk of delight. Instructions: Smother the succulent gobs with sugar, Bavarian cream, cinnamon or processed fruit `n sauce...