Word: grayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Figuring she had little to lose, Martha agreed to the treatment and soon found herself sitting in a chair under a squat, gray crescent that administered a series of magnetic pulses to the top of her head. The treatment lasted for one hour, five times a week, for six weeks. "I started to see signs of change by about the third week," she says. "By September, I was on top again. I could take pleasure in things like food and sunshine." Returning to the institute every once in a while for repeat sessions of what researchers call repetitive transcranial magnetic...
...collaborating with the Israelis. An Israeli court sentenced Mardawi to life in Block 8, the high-security wing of Shikma Prison, on the outskirts of the drab seaside town of Ashkelon on Israel's central plain. These days, Mardawi, a trim 40-year-old with a close-cropped gray beard, says he rejects violence. "We can't crush the Israelis and they can't crush us," he admits, sitting on a rough brown blanket on his metal bunk. "You can't crush an entire people. We need to give peace talks a chance." That means giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
...Enrons, Arthur Andersons, and Martha Stewarts, it is no surprise the American public has little faith in the business world. And a big part of the problem with all of these recent scandals is that business leaders try to bend the rules and find shades of gray where there should be only black and white. They try to excuse their actions by saying that in some “technical” sense they did nothing wrong when their actions were clearly unethical and devious...
Barlow’s recent transition to fatherhood, then, may represent a broader shift, as more people acknowledge his vast influence on the ’90s music scene while he and the fans he played for age on into gray adulthood. No amount of production technology will strip Barlow of his underground edge, as he continues to put his ass on the line, show after show...
...It’s pretty obvious...that this was not the standard way to find out if you’re admitted to [business school] or not,” Gray said. “I’m not a lawyer, but I certainly know right from wrong...