And by making them go away you don't get to the root of your problem.

虽然恐慌症的症状得以消除,但你却无法找到问题的根源。

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When I went to graduate school, I studied American culture studies, and I was amazed at the ideals that were just made up by someone, and they'd just taken on these huge lives of their own and become things that we obsess about, and really, when you go back to the root of it, it doesn't mean anything.

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So, if these batteries are the root of the problem, why not go back to nickel-cadmium?

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While there is some credence to that (we'll go there too), we think the root of all this angst goes way deeper.

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