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After the completion of her reading, Tan was quick to emphasize that writing smut does not necessarily take a toll on one's personal life. Rather, some smut writers are just "recluses with huge imaginations...
...those who choose to play its roulette wheel, baby-making technology is both heart-wrenching and expensive (as much as $18,000 for a procedure). It involves sophisticated drugs that you must inject into yourself daily and whose long-term toll may be yet unknown. But the possible return? A miracle...
...until you find the offender.) But resolving a PC conflict means entering a time-wasting morass of Washington-sex-scandal dimensions. Still, I had no choice. After fiddling around importantly for a bit, I did what I always end up doing in PC-land: I called the 24-hour, toll-free so-called help line. This turned out to be a mistake...
...many cases make an epidemic? Survivors of the great polio plagues of the 1940s and '50s will never believe that in the U.S. the average toll in those years was "only" 1 victim out of every 5,000 people. Was that really all it took to scare the nation out of its wits, sending families scurrying in all directions--to the mountains, to the desert, to Europe--in vain hope of sanctuary...
...coffee debate: four to five cups in the morning can cause adrenaline levels to shoot up by 34%--and remain high for hours afterward. Blood pressure rises slightly too, according to research published last week. The same reactions occur when you're under stress--and no doubt take a toll on health. Evidence? New research shows that in New York--the epicenter of stress--death rates from heart attack are 55% higher than the U.S. average...