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...optimism Reeve is peddling is not just psychologically harmful, cruelly raising hopes. The harm is practical too. The newly paralyzed young might end up emulating Reeve, spending hours on end preparing their bodies to be ready to walk the day the miracle cure comes, much like the millenarians who abandon their homes and sell their worldly goods to await the Rapture on a mountaintop. These kids should instead be spending those hours reading, studying and preparing themselves for the opportunities in the new world that high technology has for the first time in history made possible for the disabled...
Have you ever considered asking your doctor about getting a second opinion, then decided not to risk it? Maybe you were worried that she would feel insulted. Or that he would abandon you in a fit of pique. You're not alone. No matter how many times we're told that doctors are professionals and won't take it personally, lots of us still have trouble challenging their recommendations. That's too bad, because getting a second opinion often makes a confusing or complex decision about treatment easier to deal with. Sometimes it can mean the difference between life...
Thinking like a Harvard student now (as if you had any other choice), it won't be another month until midterms start to hit. If you start now (or yesterday), you could be in a solid, supportive relationship by the time you abandon all pretenses of blow-drying (or showering) each morning. Such a relationship provides comfort and relaxation during the stressful times only a few short months away...
...hand as McCain, not to mention the support of the party establishment in virtually every state. What's more, most states don't allow registered independents, a key factor in New Hampshire, to vote in their primaries. This, along with the votes of conservatives wary of McCain who'll abandon the right-leaning Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes in favor of the more plausible Bush, could be what it takes to derail the domino train...
...McCain doesn't. What's more, in most states, registered independents - who overwhelmingly favored McCain over Bush in New Hampshire - aren't allowed to vote in party primaries. At the same time, Bush is much more popular than McCain among conservatives, and as the fringe candidates (Bauer and Keyes) abandon the campaign trail, Bush will likely absorb their voting blocs. But McCain certainly gets to savor the moment...