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“Ryan and three other members of Congress have pledged to live for one week on $21 worth of food, the amount the average food stamp recipient receives in federal assistance. That’s $3 a day or $1 a meal. They started yesterday.”
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“We humans get just the five. But why? Can our senses be modified? Expanded? Given the right prosthetics, could we feel electromagnetic fields or hear ultrasound? The answers to these questions, according to researchers, appear to be yes.”
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“In a director’s cinematic bag of tricks the long tracking shot is the boldest way of making a statement. It’s the flashiest and most attention-grabbing egotistical way of flexing one’s muscle.”
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Remember i wrote a couple of days ago, my solution to wrist tension was using a cat (i.e. a trackball) rather than a mouse. Well, here’s another testament corroborating my impression: “I am a trackball user. I hate mice. And, I have had no problems with my wrist after 17 years of everyday computing.” (source: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/above-and-beyond/kensington-sends- free-replacement-of-discontinued-trackball-261442.php)
Kudos to McGovern and Ryan! That should be the normal way for every lawmaker to act before advancing any policy or supporting/opposing a law proposal: to actually put him/herself in the shoes of those affected by the policy/law and experience its repercussions first hand.
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