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...desires—“Fork in the Road” notoriously postponed the much-awaited release of Young’s archival recordings among its other arguable faults. But Neil Young has indeed attracted a fan base that will remain loyal to him no matter what sudden impulses he may follow. While Young’s latest “Fork in the Road” will not affect his career one way or another, it is unlikely to be a timeless benchmark in the Neil Young canon...
...Blogger Paul Lukasiak noticed this sudden change in Social Security's fortunes back in February, and economist Kevin Hassett caught on in March, but it has otherwise attracted little notice. There's been some media coverage since then of Social Security's declining revenues, but none clearly makes the point that Social Security is about to cease playing its decades-old role as subsidizer of the rest of the Federal Government...
...little too sudden. [For the] last two years, [Lesley] gave us four months, five months, and all of a sudden, it was cut off,” Hiromoto said. “It was shocking...
...soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically, a Pentagon study lumped Mexico in with Pakistan as states that might face a "rapid and sudden collapse...
...They injected histamine into the monkeys' lower legs to produce an itch, and the STT neurons fired up. The researchers then scratched the paralyzed, itchy legs with a metal device that mimics the sensation of monkey fingers and found that the firing rate in the neurons dropped rapidly. That sudden drop-off in firing is the neurological equivalent of the relief felt after a good scratch, indicating that scratching seemed to calm the nerves and therefore relieve the itch. The findings supported the researchers' initial hunch that the itch sensation was not located along the skin of the monkeys' legs...