Word: understands
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...sort of system is that it doesn't impose heavy-handed rules on people who don't need them. After all, 42% of households with credit cards pay off their bills in full each month. Telling people the cost of using their credit cards, in a way they can understand and internalize, levels the playing field and lets each person make an informed, unhindered decision for himself...
...practitioners were not pricking their patients at random. A year after the treatments, all of the acupuncture patients reported an average 63% improvement in pain relief, while half of the untreated patients reported feeling better. "Everyone agrees that acupuncture is having some physiological effect. But we still don't understand how it might be working," says Nahin...
...Formal” in the same sentence, they usually raise their eyebrows in feigned comprehension and manufactured skepticism and say something like, “Oh, Kirkland has that incest thing, right?” It’s a classic case of fearing what one does not understand, a defense mechanism against that troubling desire to be rid of one’s society-imposed reservations and find out what goes on in that darkened JCR every December...
...much for staying forever young. Unlike that other Dylan--Thomas, whose name he appropriated--Bob doesn't rage against the dying of the light. He savors it, tries to understand it, enjoys the long-term memories--the sound of Chess records--sighs and heads home: "The sun is sinking low/ I guess it's time to go/ I feel a chilly breeze/ in place of memories." But it's not over yet, is it, Bob? The creative arc's not complete. You've got one more trick, right...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In addition, there are half a dozen undergraduates researching or traveling in the country on Harvard grants. Students may still opt out of attending university-sponsored travels to Mexico if they are personally concerned about the outbreak. “We understand that one’s health is a very personal thing. If a student decides not to go to Mexico, we will sit down with him or her and figure things out on a case by case basis,” said Christopher “Kit” H. Barron...