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...that rather than having to invade anyone to lift our spirits (top choice: Louisiana), we may have accomplished much the same thing through the efforts of the Federal Reserve. When the Fed cut the discount rate a full point, to 3 1/2%, it was like pounding an economy in cardiac arrest. Suddenly, its little eyelids began to flutter, its stock market leaped out of bed, and people began to realize this might be one darn good time to go buy a house, at least in some parts of the country...
...researcher Dean Ornish knows from experience, funding for such research is extremely difficult to come by. Despite impeccable credentials from Harvard and Baylor University, Ornish was at first unable to get grants from the government or the American Heart Association for his work using diet and relaxation to treat cardiac patients. "They said it was impossible to reverse heart disease. They said you need to use drugs, because you can't motivate people to change their ways over a long time." Ornish eventually turned to real estate barons and oil moguls for funding. "Medical training is funded by drug companies...
...health-care workers should continue practicing medicine and what procedures they may safely perform. Where the feds and state part company is over the issue of informing patients about their doctor's health status. Under CDC guidelines, an infected health professional may continue to perform invasive procedures, such as cardiac or abdominal surgery, if he or she informs patients; New York makes no such demand...
...essence of the $250 system is simple: a belt, with two speakers in a pouch, to be fastened around the mother's abdomen. A series of 16 audiotapes, dubbed the "cardiac curriculum," plays an increasingly complicated pattern of heartbeat-like sounds (one mother describes them as African drumbeats) to the unborn infant...
BEHAVIOR Can the unborn learn from a "cardiac curriculum...