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What is your reaction to the people in Russia today who think of the Stalin era as a golden period of Russian history?

Try my insurance. I use Humalog and Levemir pens and a box of 10 costs around $1000.00 for each type. I have an insurance plan where I pay 100% of the cost until I meet my deductible, which is $6000.00. This is true whether it's prescriptions or actual medical procedures, so I end up scraping money together for the first 3-4 months of the year trying to come up with $2000.00 plus dollars a month to pay for my insulin and pills. The reason I say 3-4 months is sometimes I scrimp because I don't have the money, so I don't take the full dosage so I can extend one or the other insulin for a few weeks.

I agree. This is a hypothesis and not a theory. A theory explains conditions as we currently know them and makes predictions that can be tested about events and phenomena that current theories cannot explain. String "Theory" might be able to do this if we knew how many additional dimensions are curled up inside our 4 big dimension ( x axis, y axis, z axis, and time being the big 4) but we don't know. Currently the popular number is 6 additional dimensions, for a total of 10, but other quantities are also hypothesized. The concept of String theory was advanced to try to get rid of the requirement to re normalize current Standard quantum theory. The Standard theory requires you to put in set values to get rid of formulas which otherwise would have infinity as one or more of its terms. IF you have the correct number of dimensions and IF know the physical properties of those dimensions then (maybe) those infinities automatically disappear from those formulas. Or maybe they don't, we don't know because there isn't any String theory where those values are known enough to test. It's a hypothesis. When someone has a String theory which has at least some of those values defined and it explains things that other theories don't then call it a Theory and give it's discoverer a Nobel Prize.