Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.

Every stimulus must reach a certain intensity before any appreciable sensation results. This point is known as the threshold or liminal intensity.

Adlock fans cite the episode A Scandal in Belgravia as evidence of Sherlock Holmes' enduring love for the Woman, Irene Adler.

But Guy Desplanques, a demographer, pointed out in 2002 that names like Ahmed and Jamila actually were on the wane, and that second-generation French men and women work toward integration by coming up with variations like Yanis or Rayan; the latter has become popular in some banlieues, evoking both the Maghreb and the relatively widespread Ryan.