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Here's new hope for the millions of Americans suffering from chronic pain: A team of University of Minnesota researchers has isolated a small set of neurons on the spinal cords of rats that seem to relay chronic pain, and deactivated them with the neurotoxin saporin. The result: quick and permanent relief of various forms of chronic pain. While it has yet to be tested in primates, researchers hope that this could one day spell permanent relief to migraine sufferers, arthritis patients and sufferers of backaches and creaky joints...
...wait - there's more: Unlike the anti-inflammatory drugs and narcotics currently used to alleviate chronic pain, there are no known side effects. Normally pain is a useful warning signal from our bodies to our brains that something is wrong. But in the case of chronic pain, when our minds are usually well aware of our injuries, or in the case of persistent migraine headaches, the pain is useless to us. But outside of the reputed ability of some Buddhist masters, the majority of us are unable to block out pain, even when it serves no purpose. At least...
Last Thursday night Papandreou appeared, however, to confirm that he is a leader of the educated and inquiring minds. Profound politicians like him could advance the conflict of cultures to another level of peace and prosperity. He reminded us that the two chronic fighters could embrace the potential of a region that has historically been blessed with the winds of trade and culture between the east and the west...
...wondering whether he would ever be able to play again. He canceled his upcoming gigs, retired to his New Jersey home and withdrew into the dark netherworld of illness, eventually learning that he had contracted one of the various energy-sapping infections whose symptoms are known collectively as chronic fatigue syndrome. Not until last November was he able to return to the stage, and since then he has appeared only sporadically, scheduling one or two performances at a time. "Basically, I can't do my work," he says. "But I'm doing dribs and drabs...
...chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes songs that investigate the opposite of romance, and she does so with an almost arithmetic sorrow, as her past subtracts from the happiness of her present. Her chronic melancholy, however, does not overwhelm the rapture of her melodies. Her mirror is broken, but the reflection is still beautiful...