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Get the Summary of Donovan Ramsey's When Crack Was King in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "When Crack Was King" by Donovan Ramsey offers a multifaceted exploration of the crack epidemic's impact on the Black community. Through personal stories, Ramsey illustrates the profound effects of the drug on individuals and society. Elgin Swift's transformation from a troubled youth in Yonkers to a successful car salesman...
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Book Preview: #1 Uric acid is a compound that comes from only three sources: fructose, alcohol, and purines. It is strongly related to being overweight or obese, as well as the risk of cardiovascular problems and hypertension.
#2 The laws of nature, such as the effects of gravity, the principles of time and space, and the importance of food and water to human survival, were established...
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#1 I was born in the Soviet Union under difficult circumstances. My father was involved in an illegal business, taking and printing photographs for churches. My family decided to flee the Soviet Union and relocate to Israel. During this time of transition for my family, five surgeries were performed on my eyes. The first two were unsuccessful. The other three were successful,...
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Book Preview: #1 The filters we apply to the past can make it seem like the 1800s was a time of elegance and romance, when in reality, it was a time of long hours spent doing menial labor for little pay.
#2 The underbelly of Western culture in the 1800s to the 1900s was never discussed in terms of the medical issues and diseases that afflicted that era. However, those were the most...
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#1 The most important takeaway from this is that sleep is a natural periodic state for the mind and body. If you're not doing it, you're being completely unnatural. And, nobody likes unnatural people.
#2 The shortcut to success is not made by bypassing dreamland. You will actually work better, be more efficient, and get more stuff done when you're properly rested.
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#1 The baby's circadian clock, which is insensitive to red light, is highly sensitive to the blue light that is a component of regular white light. I bought a red light bulb for the nursery, and used it exclusively during night feeds and diaper changes.
#2 Newborns wake up every two to three hours to feed, and to establish a good milk supply. You must feed a newborn...
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#1 The skin is the largest organ in the body, and it is vital to our survival both emotionally and physically. It is important to understand its role and relevance for our overall health, and to learn how to properly care for it.
#2 Our skin is our body's natural heating and air-conditioning system. It protects us from harmful elements that might otherwise gain access...
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#1 I receive an email from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. They want to come to Salt Lake City to interview me. I'm skeptical, but I decide to consider it. I don't want to prostitute my sickness to the media's love of McNugget news bites.
#2 I was terrified about the interview, but I agreed to do what I could to help the show. I was the story of millions of people...
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#1 The heart is a two-pump organ that pumps blood to the lungs and body. The four chambers of the heart contract in a precisely timed choreography to keep the body supplied with oxygen. The two smaller chambers, called atria, push blood down to the two larger chambers, called ventricles.
#2 Blood pressure is the pressure that the blood puts on the walls of the blood...
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#1 The integrative approach to cancer has become increasingly popular, and is being used by millions of people around the country. It is important to treat patients like family members, which is why we use the terms patient and person interchangeably.
#2 The first case we're going to look at is that of a 84-year-old woman who was diagnosed with metastatic abdominal cancer....
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#1 The changes that occur during menopause are just as significant, and the world of sex lies before us with vast horizons of reproductive options and attractive bodies in endless variation.
#2 The United States is a young country, and as such, its culture is still in the process of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. As we get older, we begin to realize that...
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#1 It is important to understand that an injury to the spine is different from an injury to the knee or hip. A spine injury sets off a cascade of events, and the disc bulge is just one of them.
#2 It is important to remember that an MRI scan is a picture of your anatomy in only one particular position. It would be naive to believe that a mechanic could look at a picture...
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#1 Our treatment of sleep today is brutish. We, on average, sleep about 7 hours a night, with 5 percent sleeping fewer than 5 hours and 6 percent sleeping more than 9 hours. By contrast, some historical reports suggest that we slept significantly longer in the past.
#2 We sleep less now than we did at any other point in history. This is likely due to the culture of long...
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#1 My father, Brin, came from a more humble background. He was born in Wales to a middle-class family where his father, Oliver John, worked as a carpenter. He was a brilliant man who spoke French and German fluently.
#2 I had many memories of my father, who was headmaster of King's College in Cambridge. I loved him very much, and still do. He was a charming, charismatic...
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#1 I felt intuitively when it was time to leave my marriage. I was 29, and my husband and I had been together for 10 years. We had two children together. I felt so alone and isolated by the shame the violence in our relationship had created.
#2 The times in our lives that require us to transform are based on taking actions based on how we feel. We are the conduits for...
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#1 I was diagnosed with cancer. Aelius wrote down the dreams sent to him by Asclepius, and he writes about the experience of living in a body and experiencing suffering in a specific historical moment. The dream journal itself is the rejected way of telling this story, but its existence allows us to hear the voice of someone who lived through this illness and who tried...
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#1 When I asked Marin how she spent her time away from work, she told me she spent it on Facebook. When I asked Karen how she spent her time, she told me she was lonely and bored.
#2 The epidemic of brain fog is sweeping the country. It is an epidemic of many names: brain fog, depression, ADHD, and an inability to focus. And it affects many people.
#3 The short answer is that our...
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#1 Until the nineteenth century, dreams were thought of in the context of spirituality rather than science. They were treated like a sort of magical X-ray, with doctors consulting dreams for clues to their patients' prognoses.
#2 Dreams can be so lifelike that they seem to be the product of supernatural forces. They can change our beliefs, and they can even instill a...
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#1 You know you're not expecting if you only feel in the mood about two weeks after your period, hoping that's when you ovulate. During sex, you start fantasizing about the sperm racing inside you rather than the joystick inside you.
#2 It can be difficult to understand how baby-making works and how your own body works (or doesn't work) to get pregnant. But remember...
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