Word: curing
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...piece with a trend in niched America: alternative media for parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason they need to change your iTunes playlist...
...burning bright eyes. ''Have you got TB?'' she asked. ''This is a TB ward. But I go back to the cell tomorrow because I no longer cough blood. When my condition deteriorates and I cough blood again, they will let me come back. They don't bother to cure us, but they don't let us die either.'' After another week, the doctor told me I could return...
Headaches, heartaches, backaches, aching feet, fatigue, anxiety and those vague, burning pains in your legs at night--these are the nemeses of real doctors. Many people have these symptoms, but the cruel truth is that there is no reliable cure for any of them. Clever doctors watching their incomes melt away have taken notice, establishing all sorts of lucrative NRWAT practices. They've become chiropractors, osteopathic manipulators, prolotherapists, postural therapists, acupuncturists, even Therapeutic Touch practitioners. Each of these therapies proclaims the existence of force fields, bodily reactions, energies or auras that simply cannot be measured or observed scientifically. The "patients...
...President desperate to change the subject from Iraq and to offer his party a market-oriented angle on an issue Democrats hope to ride into 2008. For those who buy coverage outside the workplace, it's a boon. But Bush's plan isn't a serious attempt to cure what ails health care and might make some things worse...
...best American play of the 1980s. He happily proclaims that news in his cover profile of the playwright, which was written with reports from Los Angeles Correspondent Elaine Dutka. Says Henry: "There is a saying in the theater that there's nothing wrong with Broadway three hits won't cure. In any season that Neil Simon brings out a play, the problem is one-third solved...