Researchers in Mumbai have found that certain types of gallstones can be dissolved by injecting them with a gasoline additive in the form of ether. The ether is injected through a tube directly into a tube directly into the gallbladder. the one day treatment works only on cholesterol-based stones. Not those composed largely of calcium. however as the cholesterol stones are by far the most common type for millions of gallstones sufferers the treatment should offer a welcome alternative to surgery
injecting ether into the gallbladder dissolves most gallstones (True/False/Can't say)surgery is the only treatment for calcium stones (True/False/Can't say)hundreds of people contains
Confucius said that to know the future we have to understand the past his time transport ,communications and scientific knowledge were less developed than they are today. News took weeks to travel where as today satellite links connect the continents virtually instantaneously. But our technological advances in the field of communications seem not to have improved our capacity to understand one another.
in Confucius day people were more intelligent (True/False/Can't say)We understand each other better now than in Confucius time because we can travel more quickly (True/False/Can't
Words in totalitarian systems have an unhealthy importance and in such states now attempting to return to a more democratic normality there has been a natural inevitable and healthy devaluation of words whereas previously a single word used in a speech or even a play or poem could be a serious political event now the words come cheaper almost free. Politics is politics again and poetry only poetry
Totalitarian state devalue words (True/False/Can't say)Only non-totalitarian regimes produce poetry of political importance (True/False/Can't say)Writers under totalitarian regimes have
Anyone whose has systematically examined faces will have perceived a preponderance although not a proliferation of asymmetry. whether or not the expression is volitional and self controlled or spontaneous appears to predict facial asymmetry as does the type of emotion protrayed. positive emotions are usually displayed symmetrically although a left sided representation of a negative emotion is more common. posed expressions and negative emotions are less likely to be symmetrically represented.
an angry person is more likely to have a lopsided expression than someone who is smiling (True/False/Can't say)a deliberately assumed facial expression will always be asymmetrical (True/False/Can't
Human existence is not susceptible of arbitrary division between consciousness and unconsciousness. the conscious world invades and shapes the activities of the unconscious while many of the great achievements of humanitys waking hours were wholly or partly inspired by dreams even if it could be argued that dreams precede experience such a dichotomy could not be drawn as the influence of dreaming on the waking state would remain unclear but as yet no common vocabulary exists to record the substance
sleep can be a creative state. (True/False/Can't say)it is difficult to tell whether a sleeper is dreaming or not (True/False/Can't say)if we knew what babies dream about before
