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Becoming Bulletproof
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/11/11—There are no guarantees, but we have a much better chance with a vest made from a fabric of certain cytokines. Let’s recapitulate. Evolution engineered…
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American Rink Slips on Thin Greek Ice
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/4/11—Greece borrows money from a French-Belgian bank called Dexia. Dexia is active in the US municipal market, serving as a remarketing agent for, and guarantor…
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It Isn’t About Greece. It’s About Las Vegas
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—The Greek debt crisis is tragic enough for the people of Greece. It may prove catastrophic for the people of the world because it is…
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The World Needs to Go on a Dollar Diet
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/20/11—The dollar, battered and beleaguered as it may be, is the world’s safe-haven currency. When emergencies—economic, political or even meteorological—occur throughout the globe, public and…
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Soft Spot? Maybe in Our Heads, But Not in Our Hearts
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/6/11—An unproductive debate is raging over whether the economy’s current woes are just a “soft spot” or the beginnings of a new recession. One thing…
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There Oughta Be a Law: Make Defaulting on Mortgages a Federal Crime
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/30/11—About a quarter of people with a mortgage are upside down. They owe more on the house than it is worth. With home prices still…
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Back to Basics: What Causes Osteoarthritis?
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/23/11—There seems to be an innate drive in humans to unearth fundamental causes—or at least causes as near to fundamental as a particular view of…
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Co-opted & Thus Corrupted
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/9/11—I was corrupt. Maybe I still am, but I’m not now aware. That’s the thing. Most corrupt people aren’t aware of their corruption, unless they…
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Public Enemy No. 1
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—4/25/11—No, it isn’t Rep. Ryan. He came in second. (Just joshing, Congressman.) The country’s (any country’s) chief villain is the adipocyte, or fat cell. The…
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The Cyto-kinest Cut of All (or How to Cut Chronic Illness Costs to the Bone)
Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE FL—(Weekly Hubris)—4/18/11—The graduate (Dustin Hoffman) “got” one word: plastics. It was the key word of its time. Is there a key word for our time? Is…