Word: touche
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Perhaps more disturbing are the psychological disturbances associated with hyperthyroidism--emotional imbalance, irritability, impatience, difficulty concentrating and fluctuating depression. In extreme cases, a hyperthyroid patient may appear schizophrenic, losing touch with reality and becoming delirious or hallucinatory. Such symptoms have led some hyperthyroid sufferers to be misdiagnosed, hospitalized for months and treated unsuccessfully for psychosis...
Tomorrow, Harvard has the chance to erase the memory of last years humiliating loss to the Big Green and add the final touch to what has been a terrific season. All year, the Crimson played in the shadow of early losses to Duke and Hobart, but it never lost its faith...
They were all very receptive to my requests for assistance and they all promised to put me in touch with big-shots at major investment firms. I came away from those initial conversations in January with optimism about the summer, and a vigorous faith in my future as a rapacious capitalist. But, my ambitious plans soon encountered one minor hitch. Not one of my contacts ever got back...
...asked my five-year-old son and his four-year-old sister what they would do if they saw a gun. In unison, they quoted the N.R.A.'s educational mascot, Eddie Eagle: "Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult." The fact that Eddie Eagle's words were remembered by my youngsters disproves the ugly picture the media often paint of the N.R.A. Eddie can help many parents to speak with their youngsters about this disturbing subject. BARBARA ROCHE Watchung...
Fellow goes to a doctor and says, "Everything's wrong with me, but I don't know what disease I have. I touch my head, and it hurts. I touch my chest, and it hurts. I touch my leg, and it hurts. What's the problem?" The doctor examines him and says, "Your finger's broken...