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CHASEing Elusive Profits
“Forty years ago, I asked a top executive at one of Morgan Chase’s predecessor banks, the old Morgan bank that merged with Chase to create the present behemoth, why his institution gambled so…
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You Oughtta Be Glad You Have Cancer!
“There is a growing body of evidence that people who get cancer have a reduced risk of getting Alzheimer’s—and vice versa. The biology is intuitive. People with cancer have too much cell growth,…
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Why There Are More Writers Than Readers
“Writing is a form of self-display. Self-display of any sort appears to raise the level of dopamine in the brain, much as does the ingestion of food, the acquisition of money or a…
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Of Oxymorons & Plain Morons
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose “. . . the crucial point is that unless the government stimulates now in order to lift output, future output will unquestionably fall, and probably by a…
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Larceny on Laminectomy Lane
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Just a reminder: I’m a retired Floridian living in a gated elder-citizen community. This means that I live at the junction of Arthroplasty Avenue and…
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Fifth Columnist of the Mind
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/12/12—The locution now stirs few remembrances. It did once. In 1936, four armed columns marched on Madrid. A fifth within the city stood ready to…
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Prostrate over the Prostate
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/5/12—Yeah, it’s scary. The gland keeps getting bigger, from a walnut to perhaps a lemon. What weighed 20 to 30 grams can get to upward…
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The Assault on Our Brains
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/20/12—Someone recently suggested that we probably get more mail in a day, mostly via the Internet, than our grandparents (my parents) got in a lifetime.…
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In Praise of Johnny-One-Note
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/13/12—There is nothing wrong with hitting the same note—repeatedly and relentlessly. Provided it’s the right note. The right note for the last nearly four years…