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When Dana Ullman's younger sister developed a nagging pain in her abdomen, their father, a pediatrician, couldn't find the cause or a cure. Neither could the five specialists who were called in on her case. Then Dana, a practitioner and leading proselytizer of homeopathy, stepped in. He prescribed a dose of calcium carbonate; two weeks later, his sister's pain had disappeared. Now whenever illness strikes, the Ullman family turns first to Dana's type of medicine...
Reflecting the growing interest in alternative therapies, especially for chronic ailments that mainstream medicine can't cure, more and more health specialists are urging patients to try such homeopathic remedies as ground honeybee for a sore throat, cuttlefish ink for hemorrhoids and bushmaster snake for hot flashes. An estimated 40% of chiropractors--and even some medical doctors--regularly recommend such substances. According to the National Center for Homeopathy, Americans today are spending more than $165 million a year for the preparations, and sales are rising 20% to 25% annually. Says Gilbert Weise Sr. of Jacksonville, Florida: "When I advertise that...
...successful" suicide. But it took years for her to accept the fact that she had to stay on medication. What really saved her life, she says, was psychotherapy. In an age that believes drugs alone can defeat disease, Jamison remains a staunch supporter of what Freud called "the talking cure." "Lithium moderates the illness," she observes, "but therapy teaches you to live with...
Alan Keyes' one-word cure-all for America's problems probably sounds a lot like your grandmother's: marriage. On a recent summer morning in Oxnard, California, while towheaded children scampered in the sun, a grim-faced Keyes lectured their parents. "The No. 1 challenge of our life as a people," he railed from the podium, "is restoring the principle of the two-parent, marriage-based family." The moms and dads in the audience applauded. "And how do you get people to marry?" he asked, a grandfatherly smile creeping across his face. "Nagging has a lot to do with...
...underwater beauty of the ocean on just one snorkeling trip, and feel privileged to have beheld it. Surely man can leave this last frontier alone! True, there may be medicines to be found in the sea, but more people will die of starvation than by the diseases these might cure. If we are to survive, our primary focus must be worldwide population control. Where do we go after we have depleted the resources of the seas? BARBARA J. SWANBERG Brainerd, Minnesota...