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...suggests that I remove my jacket. That turns out to be a good idea. The first game I try--Miyamoto walks me through it, which to a gamer is the rough equivalent of getting to trade bons mots with Jerry Seinfeld--is a Warioware title (Wario being Mario's shorter, fatter evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight...
...they abuse other people as well. Any good doctor knows when you're too sick to be polite and will let it roll off his back. The squeaky wheel we don't like is the one playing a dominance game. That big wheel is likely to get a shorter, less sensitive examination and more tests, and then still more tests to follow up the abnormalities in the first tests, followed by extra consultations with specialists--anything to relieve the doctor's responsibility for a bad patient...
...2009”—another curious declaration, since we hadn’t descended on Cambridge yet—and “Holy Shit, How did I get into the Harvard C/O 2009?” Even now in April, my current Facebook friend list is shorter than it was at its height last summer. But arriving in Cambridge, expectations loomed that various friendships and relationships would take shape. For the most part, they didn’t. Save a few online friends with whom I clicked, most of my online friendships fizzled out (and I realized...
...already being addressed by Pope Benedict. He halted John Paul?s practice of holding morning mass with visitors; there are fewer meetings with Church officials (apostolic nunzios visiting from around the world get a brief chat - on their feet - at the end of Wednesday general audiences); speeches are shorter; lunches tend to be restricted to his personal secretary and perhaps one or two visitors. How far he extends this management policy into the heart of the entire Vatican bureaucracy remains to be seen, though already two Curia offices have been downsized away. It is nonetheless clear that the Pope himself...
...results are now in and should reassure a lot of women. There is still no scientific justification for the long-term use of hormones after menopause to prevent such conditions as heart disease or dementia. But a shorter course of estrogen--seven years or less--is safe enough with respect to breast cancer and other health risks that it's a reasonable option for the treatment of severe menopausal symptoms. In other words, says Marcia Stefanick, one of the lead researchers, since there is no overriding safety concern, "the focus should be on your individual risk...