Word: smiling
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...lucky he was able to keep so many of his pictures," says Ng Siu-yee with a sad smile. A longtime friend and colleague of Yau's, and today the administrator of his copyright, Ng jokes that had Yau been married, "I'm sure his wife would have made him throw most of his photos out. He was a real hoarder, not just of photos but of everything - newspaper clippings, tram tickets - and you know how small Hong Kong apartments...
...does present ethical issues. Volunteers who receive the treatment for depression smile on the operating table as the voltage is turned up and frown as it's turned down, raising questions about just whose mind it is anyway. Advocates argue that when your life has come to ruin as a result of disability, you're concerned less with such philosophical questions than with simply feeling better. Trickier are the cases of brain-damaged patients on whom the operation is, by definition, performed without consent. Dr. Joseph Fins, medical ethicist at Weill Cornell and a principal researcher on the recent study...
...must find" and alleviate. She condemned abortion and bemoaned youthful drug addiction in the West. Finally, she suggested that the upcoming Christmas holiday should remind the world "that radiating joy is real" because Christ is everywhere - "Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor we meet, Christ in the smile we give and in the smile that we receive...
...dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What...
...preferred the taste of the McDonald's labeled hamburger, compared with 37% who preferred the unmarked burger; 59% liked the McDonald's branded chicken nuggets compared with 18% for the unbranded nuggets, and 77% said the French fries in the bag stamped with the McDonald's arches and a smile tasted better than the fries from a plain white...