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...favorite color. And when Marcos cheated her of victory in the February 1986 vote, the outcry was tremendous - and his doom was sealed. Bearing witness to their political allegiance, the millions who crammed the streets to protect reformist soldiers who had mutinied against Marcos chanted the now familiar mantra: "Cory, Cory, Cory." Nuns armed only with rosaries knelt in front of tanks, stopping them in their tracks. (Read "People Power's Philippine Saint: Corazon Aquino...
Fortitude and Pandemonium However the pandemic plays out, the chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into the crook of your elbow rather than your palms, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the global media. A certain fortitude is required of the global population as well. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals in the U.S. were overwhelmed by crowds, including large numbers of the so-called worried well, who, when they showed up en masse, had the ability to delay services...
...called “saath-saath” in Hindi. Likewise, the family business is no longer the only source of livelihood for sons, since alternative opportunities abound. But some attribute even this modern move away from the “family as necessitated for economic stability” mantra to the timeless strain in extended family relations as a whole. The Ambani’s are perhaps not unique in their recent disputes, but only in their press coverage...
...Then how did the exercise-to-lose-weight mantra become so ingrained? Public-health officials have been reluctant to downplay exercise because those who are more physically active are, overall, healthier. Plus, it's hard even for experts to renounce the notion that exercise is essential for weight loss. For years, psychologist Kelly Brownell ran a lab at Yale that treated obese patients with the standard, drilled-into-your-head combination of more exercise and less food. "What we found was that the treatment of obesity was very frustrating," he says. Only about 5% of participants could keep the weight...
...chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into your sleeve, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the media. For instance, the current advice for healthy people who get a fever and cough without other serious complications, such as an inability to eat or drink or difficulty breathing, is to stay home and not visit doctors or hospitals, which may be overburdened dealing with people who are more severely sick. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals were overwhelmed by crowds, including large...