Word: scoping
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...power of endings has been demonstrated in some remarkable experiments by Kahneman. One such study involved people undergoing a colonoscopy, an uncomfortable procedure in which a flexible scope is moved through the colon. While a control group had the standard procedure, half the subjects endured an extra 60 seconds during which the scope was held stationary; movement of the scope is typically the source of the discomfort. It turned out that members of the group that had the somewhat longer procedure with a benign ending found it less unpleasant than the control group, and they were more willing to have...
Spending a day at the hospital with the MSF team reveals the scope of the crisis. "Oh, man, this one is really bad," an Australian doctor shouts as he approaches the operating theater. He's holding up the arm of a man whose limb looks like a shank of lamb. The elbow is essentially gone, and the lower and upper arm is barely held together by a few sinewy strings of muscle and flesh. Though paint is peeling off the walls and a layer of grime covers many of the hospital's windows, Sigli's only hospital is fairly clean...
...community of nations, to its credit, reacted swiftly and decisively to a calamity unprecedented in size and scope. Organization of a multi-billion dollar aid effort for tens of millions in eleven different countries is not an enterprise to be taken on lightly, and such a vast undertaking is bound to have a few miscues and errors. While there have been reports of bottlenecks and delays in getting aid to the afflicted regions, the ruin foisted upon transportation infrastructure regrettably makes this all but inevitable...
...common reaction, Hindley says, is that of “being charmed by getting something for free.” In all, Hindley estimates that 100 copies made their way to popular establishments throughout Harvard Square. Hindley expanded her marketing scope by having a friend “put one copy on the Red Line everyday on his way to work...
Global warming is an impending catastrophe that has the potential to far exceed the scope of last week’s tsunami. Scientists are in almost complete agreement about these ramifications, although they may disagree about its causes. Fortunately, global warming, like hunger and poverty, is a crisis that we can help to avert. The United States and China let out the bulk of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A government effort to reduce the release of pollutants domestically and to make a bilateral reduction treaty with China would go far to improve the global situation. Even if the current...