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POPSThe 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Needs they even teach it in universities, and in the armed forces. They believe this ability to slap together haphazard solutions has been key to their survival over the centuries. Don't laugh. At one time they managed to build an empire stretching from Brazil to the Philippines this way. "Screw" preparation. They have desenrascano. To view the other five follow link: http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html
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POPSDepression: a Journey Through Darkness <<< This is the worst part of being at the mercy of your own mind, especially when that mind lists toward the despondent at the first sign of gray: the fact that there is no way out of the reality of being you, a person who is forever noticing the grime on the bricks, the flaws in the friends — the sadness that runs under the skin of things, like blood, beginning as a trickle and ending up as a hemorrhage, staining everything. It is a sadness that no one seems to want to talk about in public, at cocktail-party sorts of places, not even in this Age of Indiscretion. –//– This was enraging in and of itself — the fact that severe depression, much as it might be treated as an illness, didn’t send out clear signals for others to pick up on; it did its deadly dismantling work under cover of normalcy. The psychological pain was agonizing, but there was no way of proving it, no bleeding wounds to point to. . .
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POPSYour Blood Cells Are Crawling Inside You "The white blood cells may use the protrusions for more than just gripping and moving. The legs might also sense signals that let the cells know when to exit from the blood vessel and migrate to damaged tissue, Alon said. Before this study, scientists thought the legs only appeared after the cells left blood vessels. But since the protrusions are also used for crawling, they might help the cells probe for cues that indicate to move across the endothelial barrier and leave the blood vessels, Alon said."
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