As for B, you may take care to revisit everything between the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial (about a mile of walking) after dark. IMO, the monuments look better lit up. On your trek, you'll also get to see the (semi)new WWII memorial,... [
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So you're essentially where I was about one year ago. I finished my premed postbac in July (interview this weekend-- wish me luck!) but had some early trouble with the more conceptual physics and chemistry stuff (hated math & had all the other... [
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Computerization will not save anyone money until it is:Completely integrated: EHR needs to include ALL patient data in one place-- this includes information from bedside monitors, labwork, pharmacy, and home monitoring (BP, HgbA1C, FEV, &c)... [
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e.e. coli: "You don't see those papers cited too often."
I tried to make a point of citing the original synthesis papers in my old OChem lab reports, many of which were in German. The TAs didn't like me too much.... [
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dirigibleman: "What is it with old-timey medical ads and digestion?"
I can only assume that in the past everyone had really loose poops. [
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When the revolution comes, they'll be the first to fuck each other up against the wall. [
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It's slurring its words-- the piano has been drinking. [
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Andy Rooney will seat you now: I don't like prisms, either, and I don't particularly trust refracted light. [
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paulsc: "I, for one, can draw no useful conclusions about the data presented in this very flawed and incomplete "study.""
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electroboy: "Possibly a valid point if the study were actually available."
THE STUDY IS AVAILABLE HERE (found by the inimitable demiurge) [
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This is likely not a large problem for you, but muttonchops & hair down to the shoulders are definitely frowned upon. I was almost laughed out of Congressman Conyers' office at the Capitol Building back in '04 for sporting that look.... [
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Artw: "explosion - Know many Boeing engineers then?"
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Hey, I had what was essentially your trajectory and asked a similar question in 2007. Graduated with a BA before realizing I wanted to be a doctor. I hadn't taken a science course since high school and I loathed math.
I ended up enrolling in a... [
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oddman: "Unfortunately the so-called translators would appear to lack a certain facility with the original text. Thus my enjoyment of the derivative work was sadly muted."
Let me try:
I'm Hydrogen, the foremost element,
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kaibutsu: "Assuming a 21% hunger rate in 1961"
This is a bad assumption. Between 1960 and 1999 infant mortality decreased by one half, fertility by two fifths, and malnutrition by one fifth.*
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I think that it's important to recognize that family size only initially spikes when there's a surfeit of food. Once the local economy diversifies and GDP/capita rises, total fertility rate drops exponentially.* Zero population growth happens... [
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Stein, who was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, lives at the Watergate in Washington DC which boasts a Safeway grocery store. He was in line behind my roommate and I shortly after he released the trailer for his 'documentary.' We started talking... [
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I second (and third) the suggestions of EMT Training, Bread Baking, and picking up a musical instrument. [
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10 PRINT "You're unlike a summer's day."
20 PRINT "You're more lovely and less hot."
30 PRINT "March's Lion threatens May."
40 PRINT "Summer's shorter than I thought."
A: 50 GOTO 20
60 DIM
70 SWAP Fair... [
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been... [
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He could measure the deterioration on his charts. "It looked," he says, "like money was impoverishing them."
I just logged onto gapminder, and, while I don't have the numbers for Suelo's particular village, the statistics for... [
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My fellow abbot whom I'm soon to break.
My drainage hath consumed your whole milkshake. [
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There once was a man from [REDACTED]
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Additionally:
Western Mass Style (with banjo and throat singing)
Sacred Harp Style* (mp3)
Choctaw Style (mp3)
*Can't seem to find a recording of the crazier arrangement, Jewett (score here).... [
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