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Some medical research is attempting to translate the workings of alternative medicine into something doctors can comprehend. Research has shown, for instance, that an acupuncturist's needles stimulate nerve cells to release endorphins, powerful opiate-like substances that relieve pain. Homeopathic remedies have been found effective for influenza, headache and allergies in numerous medical studies conducted in Europe. Meanwhile, herbs used in Chinese and Indian medicine have been shown to contain some of the same active ingredients found in conventional drugs...
...bringing a fresh perspective to the increasingly bitter contest between those who would exploit wild areas and those who would preserve them. Even more important, in their heroic, often desperate struggle to recover what has nearly been lost, they have grasped a truth many of us only dimly comprehend: if the fate of humans depends on nature, the fate of nature, irrevocably and irretrievably, rests in human hands...
...Muslim brothers contended that what they were espousing in their sermons was fully within the norms of acceptability, and that they could not comprehend why anyone would take their message as an affront. Did not everyone in our Society agree that the bombing of Iraq was a brutal attack against the Islamic nation? Who possibly could deny that the oil-rich sheikhs of the Gulf and their followers are bastardly hypocrites who pay off their imams? And who could possibly be offended if this "truth" were articulated...
...realize, in the 1990's, that I should probably say "hit-people"--I didn't miss out on that big cultural step. But regardless of what I call contracted murderers, I still can't comprehend why ordinary American people are putting out hits on their neighbors...
...this veteran Washington watcher, who logs at least 100,000 miles a year roving the country's byways, the heartland is where the drama of American politics unfolds. "Any program that is passed either affects certain people or they have to pay for it," he explains. "To comprehend the political struggles in Washington, you have to know what's occurring in the small corners of this nation." Sidey has always been unerring in his devotion to that axiom. The politicians he covers sometimes tend to forget it, and that's how many news stories get their start...