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Researchers are exploring the possibility that migraine sufferers are not just hypersensitive to various triggers but that their brains have lost some of their natural ability to suppress pain signals. To find out more, scientists are studying a part of the brain called the periaqueductal gray matter, which, says Dr. Welch in Kansas City, "switches off the pain response so that you can focus on the fight to survive. It's the reason why if you have a cut that you don't remember getting, it doesn't start to hurt until you actually look...
...My.harvard—which Harvard somehow thinks is wonderful and responding to student needs—should not be supported by giving students no other alternatives. Harvard should be impressed that students have created a portal that has so many more features and work with CrimsonConnect.com and not suppress such innovation. It would be a different case if Hadfield was doing something potentially harmful with the PIN-protected material. This was the case against Facebook.com founder and former undergraduate Mark E. Zuckerberg, who in 2003 created a Web site that randomly paired pictures of undergraduates culled from House facebooks...
...tank-top speech, when troops acting on his orders shelled the building, turning its upper half into a charred hulk, while putting down a rebellion by legislators against his reforms. And the following year he ordered his troops into Chechnya in what became a disastrous and bloody war to suppress that country's drive for independence...
...himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that he could never quite suppress; he could have become a bore, but even at his most despairing he had an endless willingness to entertain his readers: with drawings, jokes, sex, bizarre plot twists, science fiction, whatever it took...
...country's security apparatus. A large map in Inspector Moyo's office highlighted in red "areas of political activity"--which turned out to be every town or large village. A directive on the wall reminded him his job was to "investigate all cases of a political nature, suppress all civil commotion and gather political intelligence." There was even a detailed procedure in case the station ever came under attack. Fear and vigilance combined in an obsession with paperwork. Every remark I made was typed in triplicate. I was fingerprinted five times...