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Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life By Adam Gopnik 211 pages; Knopf...
...film is monitoring a clandestine meeting between one of his agents, Schumer (Ian Burfield), and a potential IBBC informant, whom the assignation has made very nervous. "You need to relax," the agent tells the informant, who replies, "I relax better tense." Adrenaline levels hardly matter to these two. In short order, they'll be killed: one in a "freak road accident" and the other, the Interpol agent, crumpling dead on the street. Salinger gets to see that in person...
...boost the bottom line down the road. "It's a slippery slope," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. "If the consumer lowers the threshold, it's harder to get back to the true market price. It's a decent short-term strategy that can wreak havoc in the long term." International Speedway, for one, insists the deals will stick around for some time. "We're doing a price-resetting," says chief marketing officer Daryl Wolfe. "We're not talking about a quick-and-dirty discount...
...likely to go on the blink. "There are very real changes that occur in the body very rapidly that might explain the clarity during fasting," says Dr. Catherine Gordon, an endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston. "The brain is in a different state even during a short-term fast." Biologically, that's not good, but the light-headed sense of peace, albeit brief, that comes with it reinforces the fast and rewards you for engaging in it all the same. (See pictures of the end of Ramadan...
Kristeller, who had participated in earlier work exploring how physicians could help their patients quit smoking, recalled a short - five- to seven-minute - conversation that the leader of a study had devised to help doctors address the problem. The recommended dialogue conformed to what's known as patient-centered care - a clinical way of saying doctors should ask questions then clam up and listen to the answers. In the case of smoking, they were advised merely to make their concern known to patients, then ask them if they'd ever tried to quit before. Depending on how that first question...