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...This patient had been in an automobile accident 48 hours earlier. After the accident she had gone home. She then came in to the ER the evening I was on call because she said her pain had become "excruciating - like I'm being stabbed with a thousand knives." Charlene complained of pain in her head and neck, both shoulders, upper back, lower back and one knee. There was not a mark on her. Between her physical exam, scans and X-rays, I was unable to find any abnormality other than nonreproduceable joint stiffness (they moved well except while I examined...
...Barack Obama has apologized several times over for what would seem to anyone unfamiliar with the rituals and requirements of American politics to be a fairly touching tribute to "over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted" in Iraq. Unlike many, Obama has opposed this war since the beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror...
...teams and team owners that this is a technology worth pursuing - and investing in. The league will have its chance this weekend as owners flock to the All-Star game, the NBA's equivalent to an annual convention. Says Rokosa: "You know the saying a picture is worth a thousand words? This one is worth two-thousand...
...local authorities in a whole range of crucial areas. If the central government can't stop the sale of Gucci knock-off handbags around the corner from its own enforcement office, how can they stop factories poisoning the drinking water tens of millions of its citizens depend on a thousand miles away? It's a scary thought for the Chinese and the outside world...
...ravaged by plant closings. I saw that the problems people faced weren't simply local in nature - that the decision to close a steel mill was made by distant executives; that the lack of textbooks and computers in schools could be traced to the skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away; and that when a child turns to violence, there's a hole in his heart no government could ever fill...