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Osx Dictionary
Shunt
shunt |SHənt| verb 1 [ with obj. ] push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one track to another: their train had been shunted into a siding. • (usu. be shunted) push or shove (someone or something): chairs were being shunted back and…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Shaking hands with the mafia
I shook hands with each man in turn to seal the deal. The exchange was a little more formal and solemn than I’d expected it to be, and I had to clench my jaw to stifle a laugh. And those attitudes, their gravitas and my recusant impulse to laugh, registered the difference…
Killing to live versus living to kill
IN MY FIRST KNIFE FIGHT I learned that there are two kinds of people who enter a deadly conflict: those who kill to live, and those who live to kill. The ones who like killing might come into a fight with most of the fire and fury, but the man or woman who fights just to live…
Loyal to the men, not the mafia
But I was alone, and for two reasons. The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn’t join it. I’m not a joiner. I never found a…
Toward An Ontological Treatment Of Disease And Diagnosis
Disease vs disorder
Disease: A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism. Epilepsy as a disease that disposes to the occurrence of seizures (pathological processes) due to an underlying abnormality in the…