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...should be prepared to spell out quickly and tersely the key characteristics of your pain: 1) Identify precisely where it hurts and whether the pain moves from one area to another. 2) Describe how frequently you experience episodes, including the time of day they occur and whether they're constant or wavering in intensity. 3) Describe not only the severity but also what the pain feels like (throbbing, gnawing, stabbing), since even seemingly trivial details can help a doctor make a diagnosis. 4) Remember the sort of things that trigger the pain (the type of movement, for example) and whether...
...what purpose?), or has she simply made a mistake? Why does she put a video camera in the hands of a fan in 1954? Why does she have the ex-Athlete, musing on his baseball career, think of "playoffs and the Series" when playoffs would not occur until 15 years later...
According to preliminary market surveys, there are 10,000 would-be space tourists willing to spend $1 million each to visit the final frontier. Space Adventures in Arlington, Va., has taken more than 130 deposits for a two-hour, $98,000 space tour tentatively (and somewhat dubiously) set to occur by 2005. Says Gene Meyers of the Space Island Group: "Space is the next exotic vacation spot...
Such an understanding could be achieved tomorrow by some bright graduate student, or it could just as easily take another century or so. It may be accomplished by pure mathematical deduction from some fundamental new physical principle that just happens to occur to someone, but it is more likely to need the inspiration of new experimental discoveries...
...fact that fossilized life of the simplest bacterial grade appears in some of the most ancient rocks on Earth suggests that an origin of life in these conditions may be nearly inevitable, since incredibly improbable events should not occur so quickly. But my skeptical side retorts that good luck in one try proves nothing. I may win the lottery the first time I buy a ticket, and I might flip 10 heads in a row on my first sequence of tosses...