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...first instinct as good feminists, or as good-feminist wannabes, is to applaud this. Why should a doctor, no less, be reduced to an adjunct of her husband's ambition? But as we try to assess these men who want the most important job in the world, it's hard to avoid feeling that the big boss in Woman's World was on to something. We want to meet the missus...
...both said that there should be more experimental research performed to better assess the effects of magnesium and magnesium supplements on type II diabetes development...
Gottman, a clinical psychologist, has essentially distilled the art of love and war--a.k.a. marriage--into a kind of science. After 30 years of such studies inside his physiology lab, nicknamed the Love Lab, Gottman's group has developed a model that he claims can assess whether a couple are on a path to dysfunction. Now when Gottman wires up therapy clients and videotapes them, "in the first three minutes of the conflict discussion," he says, "we can predict if a couple is going to divorce." He and research partner Robert Levenson of the University of California, Berkeley, found that...
...Crimson will have to wait until the start of next semester to assess whether or not the rest of the Harvard community seizes the opportunity to watch it journey on the road to the Frozen Four...
...been more than a year since Stacey's transformation, time enough to assess its early consequences for her and those around her. Her story, like those of other recipients of Extreme Makeover's aesthetic magic, shows that when ugly ducklings become swans (particularly if surgery is involved) ruffled feathers can ensue, not to mention a fair amount of swelling--physical, emotional and social. In its desire to produce inspiring fables, the program plays down these complications, but they're real, and they raise important questions. Can human beings really change from the outside in? Does suddenly looking like a million...