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  Letter L Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people/archive
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 Hypochondria - TheBestLinks.com - Hypochondriac, Anxiety, Anti-depressant, Doctor, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hypochondriacs are a severe problem to the health system as they use up much of doctors' time in taking unneeded blood tests, MRIs and such, which waste valuable resouces and time.
Some hypochondriacs will even be subjected to unnecessary exploratory surgery or treatments that can endanger their health.
It should be noted that in some cases hypochondria is misdiagnosed when the patient is indeed unwell, but the physician is unable to diagnose the real illness.
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 Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, etc. The Disabling Of A Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Patients are dismissed as hypochondriacs while the disease is allowed to pass slowly but steadily through the population.
It is hundreds of pages long and lists where these experiments took place, when they took place and what simulants were used.
Listed in this document are the many excuses that can be used for the purpose of experimenting on the American public without their knowledge or consent.
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 List of polydactyl people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The following is a list of famous people who are, were, or are believed to have been (additional info and facts about polydactyl) polydactyl:
Several days later, he showed his foot to the press to prove that he only had the usual five toes after someone agreed to donate money to charity for showing his foot.
List of Lords of the Isle of M...
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 Vulcan (Star Trek) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tom Paris of the U.S.S. Voyager once said that Vulcans are "all a bunch of hypochondriacs".
Leonard Nimoy felt that the Vulcans represented the Jewish people (to which he belongs), and he invented the famous "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand gesture (palm forward, fingers pointing up, separate the middle finger and the ring finger) based on the hand symbol used by kohanim.
Over the years, writers and fans have created their own ideas about Vulcan culture, which have not always been supported by canonical sources (the TV series and movies).
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 Wish List
They are famous as an advance in information design; they address the question "what's around me?".
For example, you could accumulate an electronic list of places you've been meaning to go, and then on Saturday morning you could call up all of the places in a certain neighborhood that you're interested in.
Lists of the tracks are often a decent substitute, especially in genres where the lengths of the tracks are predictable, but in many genres that's not the case.
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 John Wayne Gacy Jr., famous Chicago serial killer - The Crime library
Curiously, Morrison separates serial killers from psychopaths, because to her psychopaths are human (mean ones) and serial killers are not — or, not quite.
For example, she thinks they tend to be chatty hypochondriacs without remorse who are addicted to brutal acts that result in the deaths of others.
Significant among the list of traits is her claim that serial killers have no motive.
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 Using Short Period Cycles To Predict UFO Flaps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hypochondriacs THINK they are sick, and can sometimes exhibit actual symptoms without even having the disease.
Although California is typically at the top of the list for the volume of reports coming out of a given state, it is not as special as one might at first think.
Peter Davenport, the director of the National UFO Reporting Center was recently quoted as saying he believes it to be one person in a million, but that was either a misquote or he was likely exaggerating to make a point.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1997/aug/m10-020.shtml   (2437 words)

  
 Work with Nature... don't wage war against her
When Rachel Carson published her famous anti-pesticide book `Silent Spring' in 1962, a campaign was launched to discredit her.
When I worked with women who were trying to protect their families from spray drift on the Mason Road in Stratford, we were called ``housewives'' who feel important by spreading myths about pesticides.
If you would like to be included in our mailing list for continuing information on pesticides, please email us at list@safe2use.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.
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 FORCES International - THE BIG KILL -- A BIG LIE? - By Judith Hatton
Tuberculosis, smallpox, plague, typhus, cholera and the rest of the terrible list were widespread.
The Americans, in spite of their intense and often successful anti-smoking activities, are at 21 on the life expectancy list, with Central American Costa Rica, the original banana republic.
And it should be remembered that not only are hypochondriacs a nuisance to their doctors, their families, their friends, and the NHS; they can also be a danger to themselves.
www.forces.org /writers/hatton/files/murder.htm   (6573 words)

  
 The Enneagram and Psychology
In their section on "Misidentifications", Riso and Hudson suggest that your understanding of the differences between types can be aided by considering famous people.
The paparazzi will be interested in the famous people that Riso and Hudson assign to each type.
The hypochondriacs may be delightedly worried by the attribution of DSM categories.
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 The Cultural Narcissist - Lasch in an age of diminishing expectations
The main thesis of the book is that the Americans have created a self-absorbed (though not self aware), greedy and frivolous society which depended on consumerism, demographic studies, opinion polls and Government to know and to define itself.
Lasch derided capitalism, consumerism and corporate America as much as he loathed the mass media, the government and even the welfare system (intended to deprive its clients of their moral responsibility and indoctrinate them as victims of social circumstance).
The members of this fake elite are hypochondriacs, obsessed with death, narcissistic and weaklings.
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Among his many famous short stories is The Bet, about a man who bets a million dollars he can live in solitude for many years.
List includes title, author, country of origin, year pubished and a short comment.
Famous for clarity, completeness and intelligibility, the work is still in print (as Gray's Anatomy).
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A meeting was arranged with six neighbors, all of them instructed beforehand to list the illnesses they knew of on their block, with names and ages specified, for presentation at the session.
Either they were exaggerating the illnesses, or the chemicals had already taken an impressive and disheartening toll.
But public officials often characterized the residents as hypochondriacs, as if to imply it was they who were at fault.
www.sociology101.net /Love-Canal.htm   (6055 words)

  
 Hypochondria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hypochondria can also be brought on by (The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)) stress.
Hypochondriacs are a severe problem to the health system as they waste valuable medical resources and time.
(additional info and facts about List of famous hypochondriacs) List of famous hypochondriacs
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hy/hypochondria.htm   (239 words)

  
 Journal entries
The structure is such that each word begins with the last letter of the preceding, and this includes the poetess' name as well -- Mary Youngquist.
The Tirumala Devasthanam is famous (to those of us who have been there) for its swathes of humanity lining up for an intimate rendezvous with the idol of the deity in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple.
Prior to the invasion of commerce into man's communion with God, these queues would often comprise of men, women and children incarcerated within meshed walls for days on end with nothing but their fervid chants and the odour of sweat oozing from scores of tawny bald pates to see them through.
www.cs.caltech.edu /~shankar/archives/musings1003-0104.html   (6604 words)

  
 Biography of Spiro Agnew - Biographyies List - BiograhpyFinder.com
Among his most famous were "nattering nabobs of negativism", which his speechwriter William Safire claims to have written, and "effete corps of impudent snobs".
Both expressions refer to the press corps, whom both Agnew and Nixon considered to be their ideological enemies and which ultimately played a role in Nixon's downfall.
Patrick Buchanan, Safire and Agnew's other speechwriters ultimately did him no favors, however, by putting these words in his mouth: phrases such as "pusillanimous pussyfooting" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history" made him sound like one of those bombastic Southern politicians caricatured in Li'l Abner or Pogo.
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 Canberra FM/CFS page - extract from The Fibromyalgia Relief Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This phenomenon accounts for the existence of so much doubt among doctors as to the existence of fibromyalgia, and the insistence of some that we are nothing but a bunch of hypochondriacs.
Typically the hypochondriac patient is anything but pleased when laboratory tests show no abnormalities.
A famous Viennese physician classified diabetics into two types--those who are blamable and those who are blameless.
www.masmith.inspired.net.au /docs/miryam2.htm   (2998 words)

  
 Toxic Torts: Texas Law Alert Spring 2005
Although many people recognize the names of some of the most famous (or infamous) disasters, such as Love Canal or Three Mile Island, there are hundreds if not thousands of sites all over the United States that are too contaminated with toxins to be used, and which await cleanup by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Finally, the connection between the toxin in the environment and the injury must be shown, which usually requires expert scientific, medical, and engineering testimony to connect the dots.
People who bring toxic tort suits against polluters often have to prove that they have, in fact, been injured and that they are not hypochondriacs who are merely imagining some problem that does not actually exist.
www.street-and-ragsdale.com /lawyer/texas_law_alert/spring_2005/toxic_torts.html   (620 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Spiro Agnew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Among his most famous were "nattering nabobs of negativism", which his speechwriter William Safire coined, and "effete corps of impudent snobs".
White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan has been credited with coming up with "pusillanimous pussyfoots" and "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history".
Agnew is also generally credited with being the first to use the term "radiclib", an abbreviation of "radical liberal".
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 Electronic and Computer Music Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Manufacturers are famous for advertising upgrades, new patches, and lots of other things that you can get right now that will "make it the most powerful synth available".
To get removed from the list, again, do not send to the list, but to listserv@auvm.bitnet UNSUB EMUSIC-L Again, allow up to one week processing time (this is also done manually).
Answer: Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1992 18:25:21 -0600 From: NeXTmusic Mailing List Subject: Sound Editors From: "Paul Lansky" In a previous post there was some discussion of Soundworks and a reference to some of the sound editors on the princeton server.
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 Amazon.com: Send Me No Flowers (1996) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hudson is a hypochondriac who mistakenly believes he's been diagnosed with only a few weeks to live.
The set-up is slightly different this time: Day and Hudson are married; he's a hypochondriac who gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks he's only got a few weeks to live, and tries to make the best of the rest of his life without his wife finding out.
He is at a doctors appointment, when he overhears the doctor discussing a dying patient on the telephone.
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 Random thoughts of Silly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The police boat is perhaps the most famous of these, even though it is the smallest of the vessels.
The story has it that this was the police boat that was accompanying the queen's grandson when he was water skiing.
So here is a list of the place we have been so far.
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 List of High Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
List of High Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
List of High Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory
This list continues at: (additional info and facts about List of Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory) List of Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory and List of Administrators of the British Antarctic Territory
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Recognizing that it has been about six weeks since the initial exchange and list members (certainly including me and possibly Myron) may have lost track of where we were at, I think it may be best to reprint the salient parts of our original messages before adding to the discussion.
We have the famous example of TV sets produced to > the same specs.
There are, after all, the mechanical equivalents of hypochondriacs; they will never accept that their equipment is healthy.
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 POUL MOELLER.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
His list in the Governmental report, 2003 had 100 references.
The following list was taken from an answer to a hearing of FDA, 2003.
The patients are sent from one costly test to the next one; they are not hypochondriacs, but Hg-poisoned.
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A Schizoaffective Disorder is characterized by concurrent features of both schizophrenia (characterized by above-italicized text plus almost always an auditory hallucination) and a mood disorder but and cannot be diagnosed separately as either one.
I guess Jan's theory of us (the class) being hypochondriacs depending on what module (usually body systems) we are in is true.
I had no recollection of any scenes from the movie except the famous green-skinned (or was it blue?) Linda Blair puking and cussing with the whole bed shaking, and her spider-crawling on her back down the stairs which (for me) was the highlight of the movie (being the only thing spooky).
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 hypochondria information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hypochondria is often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.Hypochondria can also be brought on by stress.
Hypochondriacs are a severe problem to the health system as they use up much of doctors ' time in taking unneeded blood tests, MRIs and such, which waste valuable resouces and time.
Somehypochondriacs will even be subjected to unnecessary exploratory surgery or treatments that can endanger their health.
www.pin-outs.com /hypochondria.html   (224 words)

  
 Who They Are
This happened a couple of years ago on a Pagan list I was on where one person questioned everything that was common knowledge, and this just sent people right over the edge -- e-mails were flying back and forth, but he professed to be unconvinced by anything anyone said.
As we all know there are many Pagan lists that are unmoderated because people want to be free to express their opinions without censure.
Narcissists are famous for insisting on having the last word - even if that word makes no logical sense given the conflict involved.
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