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...mostly to medical professionals. But it is not a controlled substance. "Anyone can throw on a pair of scrubs if they know what they are looking for, walk into an operating room, and walk away with this stuff, and it's unlikely to be noticed," says Wischmeyer. With one self-administered dose lasting for a five-minute high, the drug offers a quick escape, then a quick disappearance from the bloodstream. "For professionals, it's easy to get and difficult to detect," says Wischmeyer. "You can use this drug and be back at work and no one will even know...
...general 'change mindset' in the individual." You break up with your boring girlfriend, and suddenly you find that a lot of your old habits - Simpsons reruns after work, burritos from the same place every night, Sunday mornings in bed with the newspaper - feel too feeble for your emboldened new self. Or, as Wood writes - rather poetically for a marketing professor - "the familiar threads of everyday life stitch our habits into place." Unstitch the threads, and you undo the habits...
...characters: Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), a copywriter trying to find fulfillment in a business still largely about selling male fantasy; comely secretary Joan (Christina Hendricks) - a male fantasy incarnate - talking herself into happiness as the wife of a doctor who date-raped her last season; Roger (John Slattery), engineering a self-reinvention of his own with a second wife barely older than his scotch. The spectacular third episode weaves their stories together in a funny and touching fugue of character moments...
Some of the passion stems from a legitimate frustration that the government is already too deeply involved in the economy and is about to be more so. But some is simply self-interest. "All we are saying," sang the doubters in Towson, Md., co-opting the John Lennon ditty from 1969, "is pay your own bills...
Undergraduate Council (UC): 1. Self-important but incompetent band of campus politicos whose Sunday-night meetings provide comic relief in the pages of the Monday-morning Crimson. 2. The only readers of The Crimson’s UC coverage...