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...ravages of serious illness--incontinence, disability, lack of ability to eat or swallow--can rob a person of any desire to continue what the patient considers to be a life with no further value to him," he said...
...investment to attain its goal of gulping 50% of the U.S. market by 2001. The plan is to make this conspicuous brand ubiquitous by putting a Coke vending machine or retail point within arm's length of every consumer. Those market-share points are going to become harder to swallow, though. Coke and Pepsi lay out about $2 billion annually in soft-drink promotion worldwide, and spent an ugly summer in a nonstop price war. Moreover, Pepsi has its own formidable general in Roger Enrico, as well as a new game plan. Enrico recently spun off Pepsi's capital-consuming...
Last Friday, Harvard had to swallow a heartache sandwich served by William & Mary. The meat of the loss--a three-goal spurt by the Tribe--was placed between two solid Harvard scoring efforts...
Covering a topic simultaneously entertaining and enigmatic, The Placebo Effect is simple to swallow but difficult to digest. By incorporating a variety of specialized glimpses into the nature of human psychosomatic response alongside broader, interdisciplinary anecdotes and assertions, The Placebo Effect provides a well-balanced yet inconclusive view of "how symbols, settings, and human relationships literally get under our skin...
...Probably descended from nearly limbless lizards that lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their viscera are ingeniously modified--with organs either shrunken or stacked on top of one another...