Halley's comet: US commercialism runs riot

US drug strategy runs counter to Canada's.

Commercialism in classrooms.

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Commercialism in US elementary and secondary school nutrition environments: trends from 2007 to 2012.

IMPORTANCE Schools present highly desirable marketing environments for food and beverage companies. However, most marketed items are nutritionally poor. OBJECTIVE To examine national trends in student exposure to selected school-based commercialism measures from 2007 through 2012. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Annual nationally representative cross-sectional studies were evaluated in US...

Riot Surgery

Sir,?The statement made by Dr. A. IC. Basu in his article 'Experience of Riot Surgery' (I.M.G., August 1947, p. 465) that 'shock for some reasons is conspicuously absent in these cases in the first few hours (Som and Mukherjee, 1947). In my experience this is dangerous teachingis utterly untrue and misleading. We never said that shock was conspicuously absent in all cases. We said in summary th...

She runs, the road runs, my mind runs, bad blood runs between us: Literal and figurative motion verbs: An fMRI study

The role of sensory-motor components in language processing is a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. Recent studies showed that the processing of action words recruits cortical motor regions involved in the planning and execution of the described actions. However, it remains unclear to what extent the abstract versus concrete nature of the described motion modulates the activation of premo...