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...experiment, he subjected two groups of student nurses to identical degrees of pain: excruciating but not injurious pressure on a finger. The first group was "hypnotized" and instructed to listen to a tape recording of a story as a way to ignore the pain. The second group was simply told "that if they kept thinking about the story during the pain stimulation, they would not experience pain." Both reported equivalent pain reduction...
...lord she chooses. The King recovers in two days, and she picks Bertram, who wants none of her. He is forced to marry her, but leaves at once to fight in the Italian wars, and sends her a message: "When thou canst get this ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to, then call me husband." Eventually Helena turns up in Italy, where she bribes a widow's daughter, Diana, with whom Bertram has a midnight assignation, to yield her place in bed. Helena thus...
...Nathan Cohen, a University of California herpetologist, has a different explanation: "This community is like a finger poking in the eye of nature and aggravating it? These young snakes come out of their nests, and they have only one place to go. The watered lawns and garages offer them a cool refuge during the hot summer days...
...Pusey reportedly distributes copies to his friends. The book has been heralded across the country as at last printing the truth about the hypocrisy of student radicals. Though the core of Kelman's analysis of radical actions at Harvard is perhaps cogent, it is overblown into a wild-eyed, finger-pointing attack on personalities because of Kelman's pique at radicals who he believes stole issues and student support from his own Young People's Socialist League...
...well with the violins, who outnumber everybody else and use their weight to preserve a little decorum now and then. Nonetheless, when Zubin hit it, they hit it too. When the rest of the orchestra said "Bleep," the violins joined in. When they were required to do fey finger snaps over their heads, they complied. When asked to belch, literally, they drew the line and said "Blurp." When Percussionist William Kraft, dutifully following the score, fired a popgun, they played on unblinking. Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits...