Tell yourself that improving your communication with your aging parent is a process, not a one-shot deal .

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This process needs a swift shot in the arm if we are to make sure that some of the dazzling gains of modern medicine are not squandered by our own complacency, and that deadly throat infections remain largely a memory of the past.

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If it performs as advertised, the Nomad should remove some guesswork from the complicated process of perfecting a shot of espresso.

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