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...findings suggest that women should begin making decisions with an eye to their long-term health as soon as they enter adulthood...
...critical. If he has the will and the ability to maintain New York’s standing as a key financial center—while helping ensure that Wall Street does not help cause the next global financial crisis—historians may look back on his tvhird term as an embarrassing hiccup in democracy that ultimately helped maintain New York and America’s dominance on the world stage...
Many people know the term “placebo effect,” but they probably don’t know how much placebos play a role in their lives. In light of our looming health-care crisis, it is time for government and industry alike to embrace and harness the peculiarities of this phenomenon...
...term “placebo” has been around for centuries; it originates from the Latin for “I shall please,” which then developed into a derogatory term for a medication aimed at pleasing the patient more than healing him. Today, it refers to a simple sugar pill used in clinical trials as a control to judge the effectiveness of new drugs. Ironically, the placebo today tends to equal or even surpass modern pharmaceuticals in effectiveness: the “placebo effect.” Placebos are relevant in our lives in not just...
Amidst the confusion, some thesis writers remain nervous that they will not receive J-Term housing...