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...feline regularly urinated on the new husband's side of the bed, and another defecated each morning on the newlywed's breakfast chair. Such formidable expressions of pique are called "aberrant litter behavior" in the animal-psych biz, and Hamilton, a Freud of felines, goes at a cure like the master himself. Says she: "I try to find out if the animal came from a household where the litter pans were clean, if the mama cat taught her kittens well and what the personalities of the mother and father cat were like...
...does restore the resorption balance and, in some cases, the scales have been sufficiently tipped to fill out once depleted bones. In half the patients studied, women developed very low fracture rates after the first year of therapy. Says Dr. Riggs: "You have to be very careful about saying cure, but in five years, fluoride may be on the market as a treatment. We are very excited about...
Bernays insists that it is the responsibility of the public relations counsel to "set social values before monetary goals," and insure that projects are "in the public interest." In the long run, though, Bernays believes that the "cure for propaganda is more propaganda." "The whole society," he argues, becomes more "literate through the greater distribution of ideas by the new technologies of communications"--catalysts of a new enlightenment...
...based on the discovery that colds are transmitted person to person, most often by hand. The best, still imperfect cold avoidance program thus consists of washing the hands frequently when colds are about and keeping the hands away from the nose and eyes. The state of the art of curing the cold is simpler still: there is no cure. The adage holds: with proper treatment a cold can be ended in seven days, but otherwise it lasts a week...
...know the poor? I'm sure you'd like them!" he insists with comic-book eyebrows. Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall, in dual roles as lovers across two eras, provide additional satire on old movies, with a touch of the absurd: Palin, in desperate search for a cure to his vague sexual problem, blurts out, "I must have fruit!" This can mean anything; Python at its best delivers up nonsense and lets you make of it what you will. But mixing it with a "serious" plot is a tricky thing...