Word: wouldn
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...thought placebos should be banned completely from regular clinical practice. Among the doctors who prescribed them, one in five said they outright lied to patients by claiming a placebo was medication. But more commonly, the physicians came up with creative ways to explain, saying the substance might help but wouldn't hurt, or that "this may help you but I'm not sure how it works." For its part, the American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of U.S. doctors and medical students, tells its members that "[p]hysicians may use placebos for diagnosis or treatment only if the patient...
...rest of world cinema is obvious. But it is rather simple to show that the conception that we have of art has also changed, and that the very idea of a masterpiece has disappeared (not only in France) in the second half of the 20th century. Proust today wouldn't make sense. Shakespeare neither, by the way. Didier Jacob, IN LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR...
...Moines fairly glowed after it was described recently as "cool" by the New York Times.) We realize that for one brief shining moment, we're no longer confused with Ohio or Idaho. "Iowa matters in a very serious way, despite all the punditry a year ago that it wouldn't," says David Redlawsk, a political science professor at the University of Iowa...
...stay on the job) - they'll be entering the final sprint to the Jan. 3 caucuses - though most events on Jan. 1 start noticeably late in the day, just in case. Several campaigns considered throwing big bashes with marquee entertainment, but they scratched their plans, worried that glitzy parties wouldn't seem very "Iowan" and that the crowds who turn out on New Year's Eve may not be inclined to come back on caucus day. And, as many candidates have learned, entertainment and politics generally don't mix well - most recently John Edwards got booed when he took...
...whole lot of discussion. We learned an important lesson. Don't make any assumptions. So we are being much more careful now. If there is some breaking news, I am being pulled out of events to be sure that I know what may be happening. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known, because I simply wasn't taking a break to go to the bathroom...