Word: fevered
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...scientific community and the gut feelings of ordinary people can be. The ABS's National Health Survey tells us that most Australians consider themselves to be in very good or excellent health, and that the most commonly reported complaints are not ghastly complications of obesity but poor eyesight, hay fever, allergies and sore backs. And while BMI tables say many of them are wrong, nearly two-thirds of respondents consider themselves to be of acceptable weight...
...tradition of fiscal conservatism, of saving rather than spending. Yet the combination of a GDP rising at 8% per annum and one of the world's youngest populations (more than 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24) means spending power has shifted to those with a fever for fashion. Add to that the booming media in the world's largest democracy bringing brand awareness, plus the reduction of once punitive import taxes, and India starts looking like a gold mine?except for its labyrinthine bureaucracy, which can be as time consuming as it was in the days...
...together again in Beijing. As we were leaving, Chen had a last request: Would it be possible to see what I looked like? He lifted his hands and felt my face. My nose, he commented, wasn't especially big for a foreigner's. Chen was blinded by a fever as a small child. His hands--as well as an unusually supportive family that reads out loud to him everything from law books to letters from peasants requesting his legal aid--are what allow him to see the world...
...Beijing that day last September, Chen had one last request: Would it be possible to see what I looked like? I said sure. Chen lifted his hands and felt my face. My nose, he commented, wasn't too big for a foreigner's. Chen had been blinded by a fever as a small child. His hands, as well as an unusually supportive family that read him law books out loud, were what allowed him to see the world...
...last birthday. Moreover, your brain and someone else's may not answer the same question at the same speed. Each test must thus be painstakingly calibrated for each subject. Not only is that impractical, but it also introduces a whole new level of variability--like trying to diagnose a fever if all of us had a different basal body temperature...