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...surgery, medicine and cancer found that only 54 pages out of a total of 22,000 provided information about pain; half of the books did not discuss it at all. Part of the problem is that there are relatively few known facts to discuss. Pain research is an orphan field that neither anesthesiology, neurology nor psychiatry can entirely claim as its own. As a result, research has been neglected and underfunded. The National Cancer Institute, for instance, spends little more than one-fifth of 1% of its $1.08 billion budget on pain research, even though the dread of terminal-cancer...
Rand's Christmas present to his son is stranger and more wondrous than any of his own inventions: a little animal called a Mogwai, with a kitten's purr and the forlorn eyes of an orphan puppy. The creature, whom Billy's dad dubs Gizmo, arrives with enough warnings to fill a Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from...
...driven the second generation now came unhinged in at least part of the third. Bobby Kennedy's assassination may have shaken down the superego, the dynastic sense of discipline, and let loose something anarchic and despairing. David, brilliant and gifted in many ways, seems to have felt an orphan's lostness...
Equally good are the sequences in Hillsboro, where the rogues finally go too far in trying to victimize three orphan-sisters, well-played by Karen MacDonald, Marianne Owens, and Nina Bernstein. These scenes also contain the most effective musical number. "You Ought to Be Here With Me"--a song in which the intentional use of AM-radio cliches transcends the genre as it fails to do so in other numbers...
Observers say that the House system has never really had a chance to settle in, President A. Lawrence Lowell retired in 1933, leaving the system an orphan at age three. World War II and the unrest of the late `60s and the inclusion of women have prevented traditions from forming...