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...desperately fighting to chip away at every small reproductive right we hold dear. This December, for instance, the Bush administration appointed religious extremist David M. Hagar, MD, to the Food and Drug Administration’s reproductive health committee, a man who is notorious for prescribing biblical scriptures to cure premenstrual syndrome and for his refusal to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. The current administration has also allotted $135 million to abstinence-only education, which not only forbids the mention of condoms by teachers except to talk about their failure and refers to heterosexual marriage as the only healthy lifestyle...
...When reports of the plan trickled out last month, the village of Borobudur buzzed with controversy. Almost everyone, particularly the asongan, believed the cure was worse than the problem. On Jan. 10, opponents of Java World, many of them writers and performing artists, staged a "poetry protest"?a charming concept in a country where demonstrations sometimes turn violent...
Counter’s 10-year-old daughter Olivia said she enjoyed the service. Though her dream was not read aloud during the service, Olivia said she hoped for “a cure for every disease, and that people will have a place to stay and will be healthy...
...since then it has gone from a medical and cultural institution to the punch line of a mildly dirty joke told by psychiatry residents. The members of the American Psychoanalytic Association today treat fewer than 5,000 patients in the U.S. How did the treatment Freud called the "talking cure" fall from grace? And now that it has fallen, can it get up again...
Schizophrenia is where much of the pioneering work in this field has occurred, and the images on the following pages trace the remarkable journey that scientists are taking as they search for the roots of this disorder and perhaps someday a cure...