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Then Howard grabs Casey by the head, holds him down and strikes him again and again above the eyes. The action looks faked, but no one seems to mind. Casey is down, in seeming agony, twisting his body like an animal buckling in a slaughterhouse pen. As his pain subsides...
Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic...
The anecdotes and opinions keep caroming like talk-show badinage on Olympus. They meet the traditional challenge of autobiography: to speak entertainingly about others while revealing as little as possible about yourself. It is the pose that best suits a movie director, whose art is by nature voyeuristic rather than...
What are the signs of addiction? According to Wilkins, there are some key clues. Do the children come straight home from school and turn on the TV? Do they watch more than ten hours a week? Is their concentration span divided into seven-minute segments, the usual time between commercials...
If students ran HSA entirely, a "state of chaos" would take over as each class graduated. Rosenwald avers.