For my money, I find the beginnings of the scientific explanation sufficiently persuasive and sufficiently compelling that I don't find the argument from near- death experience--as an argument for the existence of a soul-- I don't find it especially persuasive.

在我看来,我觉得这些初步的,科学解释已经足够有说服力,足够令人信服,而从濒死体验的角度,来证明灵魂存在论证,我认为它不是特别有说服力

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Don't expand government and destroy the beginnings of a cornucopia of pharmaceutical breakthroughs that will fight numerous afflictions, such as arthritis, depression, heart disease and Alzheimer's.

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For Rick Randall the journey from modest blue-collar beginnings in a Buffalo suburb to riches didn't add up to much, given that he lost his family in the process.

FORBES: Balancing Act

Not only was that conference held and what seemed to be the beginnings of a coordinated effort patched but the storm didn't really deviate from its path beginning from about Friday afternoon until it hit on Monday morning.

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