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We were unable to examine the effects of other provocative exposures previously proposed by others, including exposures to light at night [ 35 ] and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [ 36 ] . The observed early socioeconomic differences combined with a lack of differences in age at menarche or early body size also suggest that attention might be turned to patterns of early infection (or lack of infection) and immune response [ 37 ] .
Therefore, the pain provocative palpatory tests used were demonstrated to have high construct validity.
For all its lively examples and provocative insights, this is not a smooth text; it tends toward the prolix, partly because of the author's determination to cover all bases.
Writing on the LAT opinion page, contributing editor Robert Scheer makes the provocative argument that the quickest way to halt China's belligerence is to simply hand over all our nuclear warhead and ballistics secrets.
This led Wright to ask a question that ultimately became the provocative title for an article in the prestigious American Economic Review : "Why is automobile insurance in Philadelphia so damn expensive?"