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Bone-setting was a doctor's skill borne of necessity. In the days when any surgery meant great pain and usually an infection, closed treatment was the only sensible option. A good closed reduction still makes any bone doctor worth his salt proud. Walk up to some poor guy looking forward to a life of pain, deformity and stiffness, pick up his wrist, give it just the right yank and wham! he's cured. Makes you feel like Fonzi kicking the Coke machine. (See TIME's special report "How to Live 100 Years...
...Carol had the operation. Then another one to take out the metal and loosen up scar tissue. A year of therapy. Lots of pain meds. Now it's two years out and she's all right, but not perfect. I honestly think her condition is about the same as it would have been with closed treatment, minus some scars, some scary days in the hospital and a good bit of pain. Yet had she opted for closed treatment, any pain or stiffness at all would invariably bring up that doubt: "wouldn't I have done better with the surgery? Everybody...
...perverse way, option ARMs won't be as jarring to real estate because the system is numb to the pain. When problems first arose in subprime, homeowners and financiers alike were caught off guard. But since those early days of the real estate crisis, all sorts of loans have gone sour in large numbers, including plain-vanilla 30-year fixed rates. "Option ARMs don't have the monopoly on poor performance," says Amherst senior managing director Laurie Goodman. "It permeates the market." When the resets come, we'll feel it - but it won't be anything we haven't felt...
Burkle also feels that as a graduate of Harvard, he connects in a deeper sense to the kind of pain and shame the expelled students felt. “It is really a privilege to be a graduate of the College,” he says. “Knowing how much I relish it, I can speak to how heartbreaking it must have been for these students...
...successfully filibuster Obama's stimulus spending. When you're handing out goodies, it's much harder for opponents to gum up the process. As Vanderbilt University's Marc Hetherington has argued, trust in government matters most when government is asking people to make sacrifices. It's when the pain is temporary but the benefits are long-term that people most need to believe that government is something other than stupid and selfish. Which is exactly what they don't believe today...