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...Growing up is an odd, very obscure process. To a non-rower, my musings on the psychological gap between the coach’s launch and a rowing shell will undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...
...semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs comprise an impressive pharmaceutical arsenal available to the modern doctor. If you’re lucky, you’ll live to be a hundred with perfect teeth and a six-minute mile.Yet such optimistic prognosis is not available to everyone.Take, for example, one-year...
...either destroys you or makes you stronger," Iqbal says of his incarceration. "I think it made me stronger." If the movie's remorseless depiction of this nightmare doesn't shock audiences into numbness--United 93 is a Hallmark card compared with this horror show--they may be inspired by the stubborn bravery of Iqbal and his friends. Documents like this are supposed to open our eyes, even if we would rather shut them to the awful realities on view. Release date: June...
...world" is "nonsense," noting: "The Tigers' one goal is creating a separate state. They are a threat to Sri Lanka." But Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains that the high profile of terrorism, "which has been a hallmark of this conflict from the start," inevitably means the Tigers attract attention from the world's security services...
...hallmark of the Bel-Air is that each room and suite is unique, and nearly 500 fabrics and 100 paint colors were used to give each space a different feel. Even the desk lamps vary from room to room. Lopes also tailor-made several suites for the guests who use them most often. These personal touches include a a hand-painted ceiling design, built-in bookshelves and hardwood flooring. The initial revamp so impressed the Mobil judges that they restored the five-star rating in 2003. Since then, the final touches, such as a semi-enclosed treetop terrace for tastings...