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...better. Now, count how many of the audience members blame the guests' problems on low selfesteem. I challenge you to find a show in which no one blames low selfesteem. You won't. It seems, if we believe talk show audiences, that raising one's self-esteem will cure all problems...
Brown, former chair of the House Science, Spaceand Technology Committee, says that science'sreputation as an absolute truth makes itvulnerable to political abuse. Many are tempted touse science as a "cure" when it is not fullyapplicable...
University Health Services does more than simply 'cure' first-years who may have dined at the Union, the organization's director said yesterday to a group of graduate students...
...technical name for my cure is flooding, a technique usually reserved for treating phobias. In the early '70s, London researchers reported a novel treatment for the obsessive-compulsive washing that comes from a pathological fear of dirt: they confined a washer to a hospital room and arranged for the room to be increasingly soiled. As the grime got thicker, the patient's anxiety level would rise and rise-the doctors had turned off the water taps-until the agony was no longer bearable. At which point, no, the doctors did not take the patient out of the room-they were...
Interestingly, it was just around the time of my Minesweeper cure that Cohen's Solitaire confession appeared, with its dire warning "not to start, not to move even a single black queen on a red king, lest before you know it you have imperiled your marriage and neglected your family." Hmm. The warning pricked my curiosity. I had never tried Solitaire, but when someone of Cohen's intelligence finds himself so intrigued by a game of this kind ... Well, I might just have a quick peek...