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...testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...
...students, with room either to hobnob your way to great opportunities or to spend a Harvard career away from the books. Lots of hours in lab that just aren’t worth it. We all carry around such stereotyped versions of Harvard concentrations, built on hearsay and snap evaluations. Wouldn’t it be great to have a pithy summary of concentrations with actual numbers behind...
...agreed-upon date. When suspect wares - like supposed organ sales - slip unseen into the massive mElange, it isn't eBay staffers who spot them first - it's the auctioneers, vigilantly policing their own neighborhood. More controversially, veteran buyers employ special software that helps them jump in and snap up items in the last seconds of an auction. But mostly the instinctive acquisitiveness of the denizens forms the kind of lasting bonds that are too often lacking in off-line society. They meet and swap tips in the chat rooms, they build friendships over sales, they sometimes even wed. Spend...
...mystery. At first I thought it was Greenspan, but he didn't really say anything to seriously affect sentiment. It looks like one of those snap-backs, when the world realizes all at once that things are looking cheap...
...that Microsoft is sniffing for deals in China's online market. AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME, is said to be the furthest along. Sources say it has held intense negotiations with Beijing's politically well-connected Legend Computer about forming a joint venture that would then snap up Netease. Rumors link Microsoft with Sina. (Spokesmen for Microsoft and AOL deny there are any deals in the works.) Amid all the jockeying, Yahoo!'s plans seem the murkiest. International expansion may no longer be a major priority: many of Yahoo!'s most senior international executives have resigned, among them Savio...