Word: clinicism
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...abortion rights demonstration included members of several local women’s and feminist groups, including clinic escorts from a local Planned Parenthood clinic who protect people entering clinics from demonstrators. Many of the participants were passersby who came upon the demonstration and joined...
...Benedict extracted reluctant testimony from Skakel's sister and played a tape Skakel made in the mid-'90s, when he was working on his autobiography. Both cast doubt on Skakel's alibi but without demolishing it. Classmates from a private school Skakel attended in Maine--really a glorified rehab clinic where Skakel was sent after a drunken-driving arrest--said he talked about the murder. The accounts ranged from helpless uncertainty--he was drunk, he blacked out, he couldn't remember what had happened--to dumb arrogance: "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy...
...Heel. Mellow. An increasing number of veterinarians are prescribing human psychiatric medications for dogs and cats with behavior problems. The drugs have not yet been specifically approved for this purpose by the FDA, although the practice is legal. Says Nicholas Dodman, director of the Tufts University Animal Behavior Clinic and author of a new book, If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People (Norton): "It's got to the point now that if you don't know something about behavior-modifying drugs, you can't provide full treatment." Mild cases of misbehavior involving housebreaking and chewing...
...stop, Bono presses for more aid, particularly from the US. And at each stop, O'Neill demurs. "I think Paul O'Neill is going to be a very different person going out of this trip than he was coming in," Bono told TIME after a visit to an AIDS clinic in the impoverished South African township of Soweto. "He will take a message back to Washington that much more can be done...
...most successful shows are a trio of original dramas on Sunday night: Any Day Now, about two friends, one black, one white; Strong Medicine, centering on a women's medical clinic; and The Division, which follows a group of female police officers. The shows are formulaic and earnest, but unlike on ER, the primary characters are all women and the story lines revolve around such issues as child care and date rape. Black believes advocacy is a fundamental part of her mission, so each program addresses a social issue and ends with phone numbers or website addresses for further information...