Patients say the problems come in many guises. The arrogant or dismissive doctor. The impatient doctor with his hand on the doorknob. The patronizing doctor. Or, as one young woman experienced, the doctor who is callous and judgmental.
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“This goes to the heart of medicine - the skillful enactment of communication and a truly heartfelt understanding [...]

Britain’s ‘top scientist’, Lord May of Oxford:
“There are serious problems that derive from the realities of the external world: climate change, loss of biological diversity, new and re-emerging diseases, and more.
“Many of these threats are not yet immediate, yet their non-linear character is such that we need to be acting today.
“And we have no evolutionary [...]

I sent this link to my mom with the subject line IMPORTANT!(her response was the title of this entry):
http://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/

I swear the finches were having the loudest fucking party in the tree in my back yard today(while I was sleeping). They must have some kind of hardcore bonus(to spring) sex drive that kicks in when the winter starts to look like it’s gonna be easier than usual. You know that sound of hundreds of [...]

These are always good an’ interesting:
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Bill is Shipwreck
“Bill transports gold bullion for the federal reserve.
In the evenings he logs on at wi-fi enabled truck stops and travels across virtual galaxies in his virtual space ship.
He says the game involves learning to use the ship to the best of your ability, building a multitude of skills [...]

Could you imagine Bush bungling up intergalactic relations too?! That would just be too much for me:
“The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and [...]

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Electrical discharges illuminate the surface of the Z machine, the world’s most powerful X-ray source, during a recent accelerator shot. By early 1998, the Sandia National Laboratories accelerator had achieved temperatures of 1.8 million degrees, close to the 2 to 3 million degrees required for nuclear fusion. In the last [...]

First sign of fanaticism:

And he also is doing something about a new film. I don’t care.
Mel Gibson will donate Mayan sets

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Short Sci-fi Movie: LINK

Meet the Freegans:
`We find more food than we could ever possibly eat,” said Adam Weissman. Just 24 hours before the dinner party, he found a hefty stash outside a gourmet supermarket in Manhattan: bags of salad nearing the sell-by date, dozens of sandwiches, boxes of Ritz crackers, some nice looking squash and loaves of still-crisp [...]

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/InsultDogtriumph_lg.mov

This is funny to me because i was just noticing yesterday,as i was looking for a geeky question answer, how funny the Experts Exchange name was…
Domain name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Care should always be exercised when registering a domain name: DNS is case-insensitive and the modern trend of words run together with intercapping [...]

MYSTERY LINK

After reading this popular article I found this in the comments at the bottom:
Gorilla Marketing from Toronto, Canada writes:
Cheers to making his point!
Another excellent gorilla marketing strategy is to mail back the self-stamped company envelopes to the companies with their own marketing materials inside but nothing signed, written, or agreed to (ex. credit card applications). [...]

Bush asked Reinard what he did for a living, and Reinard said he runs a small carpentry business.
“He asked me how it was going, what with the economy bouncing back. I said that if things didn’t pick up soon, I was going to have to close up shop and work for my uncle in Youngstown,” [...]