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...thrown at too many soldiers. They're often just palliatives. Spoons full of sugar that aren't really advancing the recovery of the soldier. Paraplegics, especially, aren't getting the finely tuned physical therapy they need. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Physical therapy involves a real-life person being with you for at least a half hour, pushing and pulling, getting the arms up in the air, doing everything that the paraplegic cannot...
Other sites, like the month-old Wishabi, involve members acting as personal shoppers. People post wish lists while deal hunters (anyone can serve as one) search the Net to find the best bargains for those items. The results are then rated by the site's Deal Rank software. If the person ends up buying an item, the deal hunter who found the price gets a small percentage of the commission. "People are leveraging other people to determine if deals are good," says Wehuns Tan, CEO of Wishabi. Adds Resource Interactive's Rollins: "The retailer that accepts that social media...
...realize it will treat them better than it treated you. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels like to be frowned at in a high-end store or ogled at by tourists in Harvard Yard surprised to see a black person in a Harvard sweater. I do not expect anyone who has not experienced it to understand what it feels like to be called nigger. Obama’s victory cannot mean the same thing for all Americans. But if there is anything his victory has taught us, it is that...
...dependence on technology - and oil - by better developing their experiential and tactile knowledge, reclaiming a part of medicine's low-tech past. Much of the energy-intensive lab tests and scans doctors routinely prescribe are "redundant, unnecessary," he says. "An important element in care is whether you feel the person caring for you cares...
...Elephantom. Pianist, songwriter and secondary vocalist Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 said when the group’s guitarist’s string broke, they had to beg the audience for a replacement guitar. Finally, the kindness of strangers came through.“Some random person handed us a guitar,” Aucoin said.Drawing on a wide variety of instrumentation, including trumpet, piano, guitar, and bass, the band has been playing around Boston since 2006. Half of the six members are still in high school, and the rest go to college locally. Aucoin said Elephantom?...