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...away the kiwis. Strike the pink peppercorns. Forget everything you were just beginning to like about vegetable pates and the grilled rare duck breast, magret de canard. The days of the nouvelle cuisine and its culinary trademarks are numbered. What the savviest chefs in France are cooking up now is being hailed as cuisine moderne, a blend of the classic and the nouvelle. Some observers prefer to call this new cooking actuelle (what is really being cooked today), while others describe it as libre (free), personnalisee (personalized) or, perhaps most appropriately, courante (trendy...
...social worker in New Haven, Conn., is concerned about American treatment of the family. "I get disgusted when I see families separated. I blame the pressure of the dollar when both mother and father have to work and leave the kids in day care. In Mexico, babies are breast-fed with the milk of life. We were poor, but we were a family...
...study, which began in 1982, a team led by Dr. Barrie Cassileth at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia developed questionnaires for 204 patients with advanced cancer and another 155 who had been treated either for breast cancer or melanoma and were susceptible to a recurrence of the disease. The cancer victims were asked about such attitudes as satisfaction with their jobs and life in general, feelings about their health, and their degree of hopelessness or helplessness -- factors that some studies have shown to affect longevity. Using accepted psychological rating procedures, the team compiled psychosocial scores that measured...
...years since the study began, 154 of the 204 advanced cancer patients (75%) have died. Of the 155 people treated for melanoma or breast cancer, 41 (26%) have had recurrences. But the researchers could find no relationship between attitude and either the survival or recurrence rate. In general, the more cheerful patients showed no greater capacity than the depressed ones for fighting their cancers, and the pessimists were at no greater risk of death or recurrence than the optimists. Concluded the report: "Our study . . . suggests that the inherent biology of the disease alone determines the prognosis, overriding the potentially mitigating...
...behavioral medicine branch of the National Cancer Institute, agreed that biology is the major determinant. But she charged that what was measured in the Philadelphia study was "limited and superficial" and that science was not "well served" by the Journal's editorial position. Her own studies of women with breast cancer, Levy said, suggest that cancer patients who are passive, stoic and helpless fare less well than others...