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...burnished by central government in Beijing, and also by the common habit among its citizens of starting a sentence with the phrase, "We Chinese..." Every citizen knows that their glorious homeland boasts 5,000 years of history - a fact that regularly gets repeated when a reporter from a mere pup of a nation 231 years old gets too uppity...
...whose levels were low, sperm survived but were often malformed. Only the men whose MIF concentrations were just right produced healthy and viable sperm. The paper does not specify just how MIF has the effect it does and indeed Al-Abed concedes he doesn't yet know. But the mere fact that the protein levels are so closely associated with sperm viability makes a strong circumstantial case that there's some causation going...
...course, not everyone becomes an addict. That's because we have other, more analytical regions that can evaluate consequences and override mere pleasure seeking. Brain imaging is showing exactly how that happens. Paulus, for example, looked at methamphetamine addicts enrolled in a VA hospital's intensive four-week rehabilitation program. Those who were more likely to relapse in the first year after completing the program were also less able to complete tasks involving cognitive skills and less able to adjust to new rules quickly. This suggested that those patients might also be less adept at using analytical areas...
...live TV and tried to wrestle the iPhone out of his hand. One wonders if the incredible frenzy over the iPhone signals a sea change in Apple's brand identity. The iPod was the accessory of the hip cognoscenti. Will the pricey, sought-after iPhone become a mere status symbol, the kind of thing that marks you as an overpaid Wall Street jerkwad...
...critics say the plans are mere proxies for affirmative action, serving no purpose other than to up minority representation among students. That makes them constitutionally suspect, argue the critics, a charge that could also be made against the various alternatives open to public school districts...