If we had six lane highways, instead of two lane ones, travel would still take just as long. The first lanes on either side would be used by pedestrians and hawkers ; the second lanes on either side as parking, especially for heavy transport vehicles that are prohibited from plying during the day, leaving the third lanes for moving vehicles. Presto, we are back to square one….sorry, Lane One!
The hungrier you are the more unfathomable and inadequate the meal served on board a ‘plane. The more tired you are the longer the flight. The more your tail hurts, from all the sitting, the more turbulence you hit. And the more severe the headache the more adventurous the pilot.
People who contract illnesses such as cancer or aids or TB, or have tumors , tend to get a lot of care, sympathy, understanding and assistance. Often, after a short, but heated battle, they leave their illness behind for ever. If they are lucky, they gain wellness. However, people who have bad backs, or chronic migraines, or painful joints have to live not only with the pain, for forty or fifty years, but also with the fact that a pain in the back / neck / head / knee is not going to get them any respite from work or life. They just live in pain.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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I fully agree with the 2nd set of observations. Of course, the hungrier the kid, the less likely she is to eat. the sleepier the kid, less likely she is to sleep. and in a long flight you always run out of diapers.
In the words of Manuel ... Que?!
Anyway, the thing about traffic etc ... a friend of mine in the Construction/ Urban Development ied told m that there's a principle behind that ... it's called Traffic Latency I think. It basically explains why building more roads will not solve a traffic problem ... ie: more capacity will lead to more people driving, thereby leading to BIGGER traffic issues.
I agree that migraine is one of the invisible illnesses. The general public doesn't realize how severe they are and doctors haven't paid much attention to people who need headache treatment.
I'm hopeful that the advances in migraine and headache treatment of the last 10 years are finally trickling down, but we'll see.
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