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...Practiced accordingly, drinking serves only anti-social ends: a collection of unconnected individuals, stumbling out crudely in search of a good time, each alone to enjoy his pleasure and his pain, as long as his own thirst for amusement has been slaked. The popular preference—a cheap and tasteless spirit like vodka, which lends its intoxicating power but not its taste to whatever accompaniment—is indicative. Alcohol has become a mere drug...
Faith heals all right, but it is debatable whether the faith has to be religious. Total faith in a doctor also eases pain and accelerates recovery. Perhaps it is the persevering faith of the patient and not God or the doctor that actually heals. Maheshkumar Mathilakath, SHARJAH, U.A.E...
...yoga experiment may have been Stack-Babich’s most unorthodox strategy in his lengthy rehabilitation from the wrist injury he suffered while stealing a base during the Crimson’s 13-2 loss to Lafayette last March 16. Trying to play through the pain didn’t work, and the cortisone shots Stack-Babich took during the team’s week of games in California didn’t do the trick. The slugger’s season was over, and his long road to recovery was just beginning...
...virtues of seducing young women by telling them to “blame it on the alcohol.” Classy. But the sheer number of celebrity cameos makes up for the lack of ingenuity. In rapid succession, Forest Whitaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ron Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, T-Pain, Quincy Jones, Cederic the Entertainer, and some less famous people are paraded onscreen almost too quickly for you to figure out what the hell is going on. If you’re counting, between them that makes 3 Academy Awards, 7 Academy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and 94 Grammy nominations...
...Young's COBRA premiums have risen, he has cashed in savings accounts and a 401(k) to meet costs and co-pays. The cancer has spread to his lung, hip and leg bones, and the costs of his chemotherapy and pain medications are mounting. His hospital has helped cover some expenses. Born on the Fourth of July, Young has outlived his initial prognosis; now he is hoping to persuade the Social Security Administration to grant him Medicare benefits in April, the second anniversary of his disability (recipients must wait two years to be eligible). But he has since found...