Word: inert
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...similar to tranquility, but it is not the same; people go home early… then doors close and San José agonizes in the heat.” Muted violence is doubly frightening; harder to confront, yet perversely easier to live with, it becomes an atmosphere, lurid and inert. It’s this atmosphere that permeates “The Armies,” Columbian writer Evelio Rosero’s latest novel. Like the best literary treatments of trauma, “The Armies” utters its violence quietly, with the clear-eyed intensity...
...pill has been shown undeniably to work in clinical trials, it is the sugar pill, along with its close cousin, the sham treatment. The placebo, as such inert and cost-free remedies are known, can relieve depression as effectively as Prozac, ease discomfort as effectively as acupuncture, and reduce as much disability and back pain as a widely used vertebral surgery that costs...
Harnessing the placebo effect does not seem a particularly easy, or even feasible, task: beating the best of 200 years of scientific discovery, invention, and insight with just inert sugar. But the evidence remains embarrassingly clear that the placebo effect is real—and more important than we may care to admit. A recent article in Wired magazine explained the trend: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent.” And 50 percent...
...your TV (if you have a Blu-ray player or spring for a $100 Netflix box). So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it'll come at a price. You'll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products...
...course, are the big guns: the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. But would-be thieves have their work cut out for them. Both documents-which were transported from the Library of Congress to the Archives in 1952 via armored car-are displayed in hermetically sealed cases filled with inert argon gas. They are periodically inspected for damage with help from an electronic imaging monitoring system created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-the same folks who send rockets to the moon. On view in the historic Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, they are also rigged to plunge into...