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...don’t really do anything per se,” I replied. “I mainly just tell other people what...
...incorporating a half an hour of walking, nothing more, into your life, you can dramatically change the quality of that life, and your longevity. That doesn't mean a half an hour of walking per se, but rather incorporating it into what you do every day. For example, use the stairs at work. Walk a little further to the mall. Just the things you do normally...
Agility has long been the name of the game in defining diagnostic categories. In 1973 the psychiatrists placated a powerful gay lobby by deciding that homosexuality, "per se," is not a mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category...
...been hurt, and they have come through their personal torment, needing each other today with a degree of happiness that is freer and better than anything they had before." Wanda is at once mother, sister, friend, wife, adviser and sweetheart, guarding her husband against any real or perceived lse majest. "In the end," notes another family friend, "she believes faithfully and passionately that his genius is to play the piano like no one else around...
...didn’t invite Larry as a Harvard president per se,” Freeman said in the days following Summers’ speech. “We invited him because he has an extremely powerful and interesting mind. And I think if we had invited him as Harvard president, he would have given us the same type of babble that university presidents give. And thank God we have a president who doesn’t say that...