"It may be that painkillers need to be tailored differently to the sexes to ensure they are as effective as possible."

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The committee also could not find any evidence to support the veracity of the reports. Dr. Schön told the committee he had deleted almost all of the original data files because his computer lacked hard disk space to store the files. He said he had no laboratory notebooks. Dr. Schön also could not reproduce any of the findings for the committee.

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...we know that about 12,800 years ago, North Atlantic waters cooled dramatically -- and so did the North Atlantic region. This large cooling in Earth's climate occurred in about a decade. And the cold spell lasted for about 1,300 years.

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Frankfurt's (1986) distinction between lying and bullshitting is not clear, save that lying appears to be more obviously intentional or narrowly tailored toward denying a particular truth or reality, whereas bullshitting appears to be more diffusely focused. That is, in Frankfurt's view the goal of bullshitters appears to be one of "getting away" with misrepresentation. Accordingly, their concern with "truth" or "reality" is minimal to non-existent. "It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth -- this indifference to how things really are -- that I regard as of the essence of bullshit" (Frankfurt 1986:90).

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"You can move to Leaf Rapids and buy a home for you know, $20,000 and take the rest of your money and put it in the bank," [Mayor Barbara Bloodworth] said.

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"A lot of what Mychal was about was admirable," Father Felice said. "I'm just a little leery of putting it into a context that shoves a person away from our human experience, and makes them less effective as models for everyday living. It's better to keep the real Mychal alive and well in your brain. I think he has a lot more to say than a Mychal with a halo over his head."

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A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.

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