While that can be alarming, it can also be liberating. 5. How would you spend your days differently if you didn’t care so much about seeing your actions reach fruition? As mentioned in my main summary, we shouldn’t judge how we spend our time solely by its results. There is a sens...
“Next to him, and behind him, the three gangsters gazed up at James Bond with whipped eyes. They hadn`t expected all this. This was to have been a holiday. The calypso shirts said so. Mr Scaramanga, the undefeated, the undefeatable, had said so. Until minutes before, his golden gun...
In effect what we were setting up was a guy who was aging over a lifespan of roughly a thousand years. Even though he looked like an 11-year-old, he'd actually been alive since the mid-century at this point - he was actually about 50 [...] So he built himself an agent in a ...
Sadly, he ended up walking a total of 15 miles from one polling station to another because everywhere he went prevented him from casting a ballot. This is the source of a quote that Oprah often recalls: “I vote for him. I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand.” When Oprah was...
Table 1. Quick look summary of the 26 genetic studies on psychological phenotypes in infancy (presented chronologically within phenotype domain). StudySample (N & age)PhenotypeGenesAssociation (Yes) (No) Ebstein et al., 1998 81 participants at 2-weeks of age Temperament DRD4 √ 5-HTTLPR ...
Special happenings included a camel caravanacrossthe Giza plateau andinsidethe Great Pyramid of Khufu, meals together on the Nile River at our host hotel, a two-hour exploration of the renovating, historic Al Rubaiyat restaurant at Mena House–inspiration for the Max Kalba Club–group trips to ...
As a consequence of the unsatisfactory outcome of our first patient, we added additional posterior instrumentation and fusion with steroid cover (preoperative and postoperative dexamethasone, 2 mg four times per day for 3 weeks) for the subsequent patients. We also found that the subsequent patients...
About twenty thousand people a year see the Grand Canyon from the Colorado River itself. They ride boats over the rapid, rocky water. These trips last from one week to three weeks. Visitors can see the Grand Canyon in still another way. A huge glass walkway, called the Skywalk, extends ...
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE“The Beast in the Jungle”We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capableof killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, 1953OPPENHEIMER HAD LONG BEEN HARBORING a vague premonition that something dark and momentous lay in...
One-thousand men, aged 30 to 65 years, with a self-reported Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥27 kg/m2 will be recruited and individually randomised. The primary outcomes are objectively-assessed changes in total physical activity (steps per day) and total sedentary time (minutes per day) at 12 ...