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...certain which provisions will live or die, but the bill is beginning to look less protectionist than it did just a few weeks ago. One likely casualty is a controversial amendment proposed by Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri to take action against countries that run chronic surpluses with the U.S. and engage in unfair trade practices. It would require the President to impose trade sanctions on those nations that would reduce the surpluses by 10% a year. Gephardt has made trade the central issue of his presidential campaign, but enthusiasm in Washington for his measure has almost disappeared since...
...poor landings from jumps can cause sudden injuries, including sprained backs and snapped foot bones. "The fifth metatarsal breaks like a chicken bone," says Hamilton, orthopedic surgeon for the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. "You can hear it in the audience when it happens." Overuse and chronic trauma produce inflammations of tendons and stress fractures of foot and leg bones. Many of the syndromes that plague dancers and musicians are so subtle that they go unrecognized. Observes Dr. Alan Lockwood, who started the University of Texas clinic in Houston: "Many physicians who don't see performing artists...
...current furor, says Bernie Zilbergeld, an Oakland psychologist and longtime critic of Masters and Johnson, stems from what he terms their "chronic inability to be precise." For example, he asks, how do they know that their 400 nonmonogamous study subjects were not bisexuals or IV drug abusers? Epidemiologists long ago learned that people often admit to risky behavior only after they have been told they test positive. Yet Masters and Johnson did not extensively question their subjects about high-risk behavior...
...AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going to the White House in March, outline how the U.S. health-care system should be restructured to meet the challenge of AIDS and other chronic diseases...
...society that cherishes money as the solution to most ills. Even so, psychologists are slowly recognizing that great riches are sometimes accompanied by a wealth of crippling emotional and psychological fears. Affluenza can be acute, striking lottery winners or newly minted doctors and M.B.A.s. It can also be a chronic and pervasive condition in families where riches extend through generations. Says Aryeh Maidenbaum, a psychoanalyst in New York City: "The children grow up in a sheltered environment, a kind of golden ghetto without the walls...