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...video is an abstract, vaguely artistic interpretation of falling in and out of love - that is what "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is about, right? - a cinematic version of bad hotel art. It jumps from romantic cliché to cliché, with several non sequiturs thrown in for effect, and the literal version exploits them all. What do fencers have to do with love? What do gymnasts have to do with love? What do fencers have to do with gymnasts? What sort of school allows people to fence, do backflips and play football in the same room at the same...
...wouldn't have nearly the power that the Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, does, especially in the areas of foreign and national-security policy. But he did express a belief that the remarkable street demonstrations of the past week would basically change the nature of the power structure - in effect, forcing the Supreme Leader to pay more attention to public opinion. We asked what would happen if he lost. "Change has already started," he said. "Only part of this change is about winning in the elections. The other part will continue, and there is no going back...
...levels of the MAO-A enzyme affect only men, despite the fact that the MAO-A gene is located on the X chromosome. One explanation is that male-specific hormones may play a role in MAO-A expression, or that females may have other biological traits that mitigate the effect of a defect, or simply that females have two copies of MAO-A versus males...
...added some measure of water. People who just drink it straight are showing off that they can drink alcohol straight. And remember: getting drunk dulls the senses, so if you want to taste whiskey, getting drunk is not the way to do it. It's certainly a nice side effect, though...
That's why the FDA is moving toward ditching these broadly defined categories in favor of a more narrative, evidence-based summary of what's known about an individual drug and its effect on pregnant and nursing women. "People are very uncomfortable with shades of gray," Feibus says, "and pregnancy is all gray." Of course, Second Wavers are hoping that won't always be the case...