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Her poetry is amazing, no words. About her I learned only yesterday (on the day of her death), from main Russian TV channel.

cold here means chronic obstructive lung dis ease

... popular to the extent as of among russian prisoners, who brew from it so called "tchifir" - extremely concentrated and hence extremely strong tea. Actually it is a kind of (soft) addiction and the tchifirists are true tea-addicts.

Why "chile" instead of "child"? Is it a kind of slang?

What do you think on this fact?

> We believe that we have in effect discovered a fundamental 'Achilles heel' for all cancers -- Dr Timothy Bates http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

In context like **He began to play fatback/swing-based R&B**

For the hundredth time I'm listening to **Blackstone Legacy** album (1971) by Afro-American jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1989) and I like it exclusively. What kind of music I **don't** like is any sentimental music, so called "smooth" jazz, swing (in the 21st century it sounds too moth-eaten), 99.999% of rock …

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/iaft-ssc022411.php > > **48 percent of patients in study quit before diagnosis, most before onset of symptoms** > > Many longtime smokers quit spontaneously with little effort shortly before their lung cancer is diagnosed, leading some researchers to speculate that sudden cessation may be a symptom of lung cancer. > …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_smoking > Studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking.[1] For example, in the United States, 80% or more of schizophrenics smoke, compared to 20% of the general population in 2006.[2] > Though it is well established that smoking is more prevalent among schizophrenics than the …

<URL SNIPPED> What do you, native BE/AmE English language speakers, think of it?

and originated from verb "to snap"? (let's forget about the fish named Snapper)

It's the title of an instrumental album -> no any words in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany > Adolf Hitler was a heavy smoker in his early life — he used to smoke 25 to 40 cigarettes daily — but gave up the habit, concluding that it was a waste of money. In later years, Hitler viewed smoking as "decadent" and "the wrath of the Red …

http://funkybee.narod.ru/misc/08-inamorata_and_narration_by_conrad_roberts.039.mp3 Could you plz (those whos mom's toung is American/British English) **put into text what** Conrad Roberts narrates? *It's 0.5 minute.* I can understand ~50% of it only.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22302-can-castration-really-prolong-a-mans-life.html?full=true&print=true **What do other experts in ageing say?** "When testosterone is lacking, the demand for amino acids to support cell proliferation and muscle-building is decreased, and it's thought that the body then shifts the use of these basic building blocks towards cellular defence and stress resistance," says Holly Brown-Borg, who …

I'm getting more and more confused... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729080.200-nobelwinner-watson-do-antioxidants-promote-cancer.html

**Discovery of gatekeeper nerve cells explains the effect of nicotine on learning and memory** http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-discovery-gatekeeper-nerve-cells-effect.html > "It is known that nicotine improves cognitive processes including learning and memory, but this is the first time that an identified nerve cell population is linked to the effects of nicotine", says Professor Klas …

**Me:** Monday; The 22nd lunar day; Gemini;

http://funkybee.narod.ru/misc/me.jpg It was taken when I was ~10-11 y.o.

Mine is Vitali. I always disliked it, but now I'd say: I love it. I hate names Sergei, Igor, Alexandre and many other (name Ivan in Russia is very very rare, cause it is associated with "Ivan the fool" - a personage from Russian fairy tales). I never met name …

I'm a heavy smoker (30-40 cigarettes daily).


Only very recently (3-4 months back) I got to know that... Americans were on the Moon **several** times. I always thought their 69' lunar expedition was an unique single space event. Soviet mass-media did not report anything about American lunar expeditions of 70's. They kept silence, a bit like Sicilian …

What's new **is in bold:** vodka - 3 parts tomato juice - 5 parts **herbal tea from dried hibiscus & sage - 1 part** black pepper - 1-2 pinch salt - 1-2 pinch **citric acid - 1 pinch** (lemon juice is unavailable in my country) What do you think about …

I'm ready to post links to them. In November 2011 a tremendous fire happened in my house. After it I lost almost everything. Thanks to firemen brigade - they saved the house itself.

Today he, this incredible genius of the chess, completes his 50 years. Bartender! Bloody Marys for everyone on DaniWeb.com! **GrimJack will pay for it =)**

It's the title of a composition by American jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter (b.1933/08/25). But what is this word per se? I googled it - no avail... all links point to the composition.

I'm all of ready to answer any of them.

You might have heard of the Fibonacci numbers and of the number pi. If you let these two ideas merge, a new and esoteric concept comes into being: the Pibonacci numbers. These can be defined for real x >= 0 by: **P(x) = 1 for 0 <= x < 4 …