... Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York ... exotic threats as snakebite, heatstroke, jungle fever or local dancing girls. None of this was helped, of course, by amateur doctors who thought the best cure for cholera was a red-hot iron on the heel. Small wonder that Bombay ...

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... scholarship the higher the pressure placed on a student and the harder the student works toward the scholarship. An online website called Ethicurea wrote how the pressure among students can very hot. The website had an article in which they focused on 3 students that were part of a Culinary arts class in Frankford High School in Philadelphia and really needed a scholarship due to ... ...

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... evidence, they accrue only to husbands. In any case the trajectory of marital feelings is quite different from that posited by the traditionalists, without the signs of steady improvement (becoming "hot") suggested in the hypothetical curve for arranged marriages shown in Figure 1.[ 4] ...

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... . Also, there is an emphasis placed on mind and social interactions, which is apparent in their Chinese culture. Incorporated in the culture is the concept of yin-yang. A balance of hot and cold elements, it can be understood through its five fundamental elements: metal, wood, fire, water, and earth. Also, the human body is divided into yin and yang regions: the ... ...

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... examined to determine the treatment. Other diagnostic aids included taking the pulse and collecting blood samples. Treatments ranged from administering laxatives and diuretics to fumigation, cauterization, and the taking of hot baths and/or herbs. Performed as a last resort, surgery was known to be successful in cases of breast cancer, fistula, hemorrhoids, gangrene, and cataracts, as well as tuberculosis of the ... ...

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