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...years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains and fractures. Most wearers admit, however, that the first few weeks can be uncomfortable. Earth Shoe rookies often complain of aching...
These ideas received immediate recognition. Life magazine in 1968 ran a cover story on the "Psychobiology of Violence" which described the work of the doctors and praised psychosurgery as a possible cure to random violence in the streets. When the three doctors went to the National Institute of Mental Health for money to set up a "violence unit" at Boston City Hospital, they were at first turned down. William Sweet then applied to Elliot L. Richardson '41, then Secretary of HEW, who had discussed the violence project with him when Richardson had been attorney general of Massachusetts. Richardson put pressure...
There are other neurosurgeons in the country who conduct private brain operations to cure mood states such as depression and neurosis. They claim that their work is standard and non-experimental, yet, it also is potentially very controversial...
There seems now to be a widespread acknowledgment that the bar cannot afford to back away from its new concerns. As one state bar ethics committee observed in an annual report, the profession "has a headache that cries out for fast relief. We will compound our own cure or someone will mix up a dose that will curl our hair...
...monoamines are either lacking or are broken.down too quickly. A new class of drugs neutralizes monoamine oxidase (MAO), the enzyme that destroys these substances. The drugs, known as MAO inhibitors, thus prolong the useful life of the monoamines in the brain. The drugs by themselves are not considered a cure for depression, but they can give relief to the victim of acute depression while psychotherapy attempts to get at the root of his problem...