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...debate about physicals has been going on for more than 100 years. In the 1960s and 70s, two large randomized controlled trials were conducted, and both studies showed little positive impact - people who had physicals did not seem to live longer or have less illness than those who did not have physicals. ... Most patients in this country believe an annual physical is necessary, but there's little evidence to support that at this time...
...have no doubt that I could have stuck it out longer with Anke in Berlin. I chose not to. Perseverance had become my default stance, even when there was no motivation to persevere, even when my determination to make the best of a difficult situation paradoxically meant that I didn’t try to improve the situation. What I understood that July day in the Kreuzberg, a week before I finally packed my things and moved out, was that I needed to step back and think about why I was sticking it out. What I found was that there...
...College unfroze the funds, and provided the Council with $100,000 as a show of good faith. And on Nov. 6, a joint e-mail statement from Petersen and Pilbeam announced that the party grant system would continue through the end of the semester, but would no longer reimburse alcohol...
...College. When the admissions year concludes at the end of June, the yield on admitted candidates is expected to be about 76 percent (close to last year’s 78 percent). That this remains the highest yield among peer institutions is particularly notable because Harvard no longer has the advantage of early action, which allows colleges several additional months to consider admitted students , or early decision, which ensures a 100 percent yield by requiring students admitted early to attend...
...Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British actor Sasha Baron-Cohen, in his spoofy mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Thanks to Borat, Nazarbayeva no longer has to explain where she's from: "I fly to the United States, Europe, anywhere, and give my passport to immigration," she says. "They all say: 'You are from Kazakhstan? Borat...