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...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom.Donald Carswell ’50 died in March 2005 after a distinguished career at NBC. This op-ed first ran on June...
...Rajapatirana's mother, Anoja, told me that her son suffers from seizures, as do many autistic people. For years, she would crush up his medication and put it in his food, because he couldn't swallow the pills. "One day, he had a headache, and he just swallowed a Tylenol," she recalls. Anoja, amazed, asked him why he had gulped down the Tylenol but had never been able to swallow the seizure medication. He answered, typing, she says, that "he thought that if he didn?t take the pills, maybe he would die." The Rajapatiranas shared this thought from Chandima...
...current out in the open,” Porter said. “Basically, the conditions are really hard to simulate anywhere in the New England area, especially the Charles.”And it’s that focus on nationals that makes it easier to swallow the pill that was last weekend’s performance.“We’re just fortunate to qualify,” Porter said. “We know that we didn’t sail that well.”—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn...
...with “liberty cabbage;” for a time, “liberty fries” took up the flag. But don’t let it stop there. Not only have the French wickedly subverted the good ol’ fry, they also guzzle garlic, swallow snails, whiff wine and, worst of all, disrespectfully wolf down our friend Lassy...
...Tending to strike people aged between 50 and 70, it kills half of them within 14 months of diagnosis by progressively paralyzing the body until the sufferer can't speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...