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...short emergency procedures without pain or writhing - but also without stopping the patient's heart or lungs. (Emergency rooms are not operating rooms; sedation can be risky, and Sasha had a full stomach, another danger.) But Melissa was her usual cheerful, omnicompetent self: "Don't worry, we can fix up that arm right here. We'll just use a touch of atropine, a little Versed for the nightmares and then the best drug there is for this sort of thing - good old Special...
...travel, thermostats turned down, no luxury homes or supersized SUVs. This call for penance is combined with fantasies of sudden, miraculous technological change. Many too easily accept the argument that only by limiting economic growth can we achieve real solutions. This thinking is deeply misguided. First, the technological quick fix simply isn't coming, and second, it defies human nature, which responds better to incentives than to moralistic exhortation...
...grille. Collins said the renovations would make the grille the best on campus, stressing the grille’s fast and friendly service. While the grille was closed, many Quad residents turned to the often more expensive route of ordering food from nearby restaurants for their late-night food fix. Collins said the grille’s convenient location by the main entrance to Pfoho would draw students. “I guess [take-out orders are] a potential source of competition, but the benefits of the grille are that it’s really close...
...This is bunk. Throughout his career, Romney always has been the same man: Mr. Fix-it. Romney is a problem-solver, who stresses data—not ideology—in his decisions, and so has changed his mind over the years. But a closer look at Romney reveals he isn’t the unscrupulous vote scrounger his opponents claim...
...year, officially ringing in the holidays with ballet’s major cash cow. But for the frugal-minded collegiate crowd (who are either too cold or too postmodern to leave the dorms for a night at the ballet), there is an alternative Tchaikovsky and E.T.A. Hoffmann fix. Get your hands on a copy of the 1977 American Ballet Theater production of “The Nutcracker.” It remains the most popular “Nutcracker” film in history, it is available at Lamont, and it stars Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Russian heartthrob best known...