Wednesday, November 1, 2017

@2:00, 11/1/17

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1
Well

Heartburn Drugs Tied to Stomach Cancer Risk

After treatment for H. pylori infection, people who took proton pump inhibitors were at increased risk of stomach cancer.

Everything has a cost.
I am not taking drugs to control stomach acid.

Heart ache is not the same.

2
Crosswords & Games

Lunchbox Snacks

Herre Schouwerwou makes sure we’re well fed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNwFXLcrsbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRWTg61W24&list=PL94gOvpr5yt2mKUAwVTaz50LMdZza8SOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTKRtLjjnM&index=2&list=PL94gOvpr5yt2mKUAwVTaz50LMdZza8SOK

3
Opinion

Glasses Are Cool. Why Aren’t Hearing Aids?

Millions of Americans suffer hearing loss, but too few of us do anything about it. That has to change.

Loud does not help.

Hearing protection helps.

Spectacles are a mask.
Hearing aids remove a mask by making one more present and engaged    with the situation.


Well

Patient Voices: Cystic Fibrosis

A shortened life span, difficulty breathing and digesting and time-consuming treatments: five men and women speak about their experiences with cystic fibrosis.

Run if it helps.
I should run.

5
Opinion

Out of the Woods

“Stranger Things” and Generation X’s misplaced nostalgia for unparented childhood.

The goal of parenting is successful child rearing.

Definitions vary.

Grandparenting seems to be generally accepted.

6
Food

If You Missed Diwali in India, Dallas Is the Place to Be

The city’s annual Hindu festival of lights, a food lover’s delight, is one of America’s largest and latest.

I will let the experts perform.

7
Education

In a Volatile Climate on Campus, Professors Teach on Tenterhooks

Amid identity politics and the partisan divide, faculty members struggle to manage testy exchanges and potential attacks, sometimes on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook
"John Ford's 1633 play Broken Heart contains the lines: "There is no faith in woman. Passion, O, be contain'd! My very heart-strings Are on the tenters.""

There is no compromise in Republican politics.

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Education

What to Do When an Inebriated Stranger Stumbles Into Your Home?

Around Penn State, where drinking is a serious problem, a home invader might be a student with no idea where he is. One townie offered a ride home; one grabbed a bat.

Penn State is doing well.
The transition to adulthood is a difficult one for all.

Walls would not help.

9
Opinion

The Messages of the Mueller Inquiry

Readers are both hopeful that “justice can still prevail” even in these turbulent times and skeptical that it will.

We are trying to reject Trump.

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N.Y. / Region

Breathing In Ocean Air After ‘Rotting Away’ for Years

For nearly a decade, Charlotte Wood, 66, languished in a nursing home, feeling trapped by her health problems. A motorized wheelchair and a home by the sea have given her more freedom.

Placebos are wonders.

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