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...against all manner of ills. Give a patient a sugar pill but call it an analgesic, and pain may actually go away. Parkinson's disease patients who underwent a sham surgery that they were told would boost the low dopamine levels responsible for their symptoms actually experienced a dopamine bump. Newberg describes a cancer patient whose tumors shrank when he was given an experimental drug, grew back when he learned that the drug was ineffective in other patients and shrank again when his doctor administered sterile water but said it was a more powerful version of the medication...
...gargantuan federal stimulus package should offer some relief to desperate districts; the House and Senate are haggling over versions that include at least $80 billion for education programs, a significant bump up from the Education Department's $59 billion discretionary budget for fiscal 2008. But there's a catch: a big chunk of the stimulus money that is designed to prevent massive teacher layoffs will be awarded only to states that spend at least as much on education as they did in 2006 - a tall order given that a minimum of 42 states are facing significant budget gaps. At least...
...part of the five-hour trip, the road is a smooth four-lane highway that whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand-new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles (32 km), you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows of silver birch trees that flank the road...
...labels lately and acknowledge it could be a scavenger hunt. Yet this time, my husband and I have agreed to apply our refund toward ordering furniture we know will be made in Ohio. I think it would be an interesting experiment to see if there is any bump in American productivity if every one of us spends the refund on American products. It can't hurt. Gayle Miller, CRESCO...
...never have enough people, but if you could bump up enforcement levels, say, 20%, it would make a huge difference," says Bruce Carton, former senior counsel in the SEC's Division of Enforcement, and editor of online securities enforcement publication, Securities Docket. "Tweaking policies won't replace more manpower and training," says Carton. "It's one thing to have more enforcement people on the ground, but they have to be trained to know what to look...