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...Many people have these symptoms, but the cruel truth is that there is no reliable cure for any of them. Clever doctors watching their incomes melt away have taken notice, establishing all sorts of lucrative NRWAT practices. They've become chiropractors, osteopathic manipulators, prolotherapists, postural therapists, acupuncturists, even Therapeutic Touch practitioners. Each of these therapies proclaims the existence of force fields, bodily reactions, energies or auras that simply cannot be measured or observed scientifically. The "patients" who pay these docs run the gamut from the hopelessly deceived to the downright self-indulgent. But lest we look down too haughtily...
...streaker. He's shaved and then marched through the Kounomiya Shrine, where a throng of around 9,000 men wearing only loincloths attempt to lay their hands on him as thousands of spectators watch. The naked man is supposed to collect the bad luck and impurities of all who touch him. The crowd can get overly enthusiastic (sake is involved), so the man is protected by guards-but he still ends up pummeled and bruised by the conclusion of the festival. Then he ritually transfers the amassed bad luck to piles of glutinous rice balls for safe burial, dons...
London owes much of its recent success to its lighter regulatory touch. In 1997, Britain's government brought an overdue end to a complicated and largely self-regulatory system with the creation of the Financial Services Authority (fsa). As lines between financial markets and firms blurred - telling a bank from a stockbroker was becoming more and more difficult - a one-stop regulatory authority, parliament concluded, appeared best suited to serving the industry. (For companies operating in the U.S. and much of Europe, no such single body exists.) The fsa's remit: working with firms to pinpoint potential risks long before...
...shot in for a goal.Kessler stopped a total of 25 shots for the game, losing only her second game of the year.The Crimson scored its lone goal near the end of the opening frame with a heads-up play from freshman defender Kathryn Farni and the nice finishing touch of its stars. Gathering the puck off of a faceoff, Farni waited for the right moment and threw the puck on net. The rebound was picked up by Chu, who got it to Vaillancourt just outside of the crease on the left. The sophomore slammed home the puck past sprawled...