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...When Cassidy returned to the U.S. last April, the Army shipped him to a hospital in Fort Knox, Ky., to get treatment for the excruciating headaches that had accompanied him home. For five months, he made the rounds of Army medical personnel, who couldn't cure a pain that grew steadily worse. Unable to make room for him in a pain-management clinic, the Army increasingly plied him with drugs to dull the torment...
...Despite this progress, there is growing concern that the cure is proving just as poisonous as the ailments. A new report from New York-based Human Rights charges that the Caretaker Government has trampled over basic human rights to achieve its goals. The report, which focuses on the testimony of Tasneem Khalil, a prominent journalist for the English-language Daily Star newspaper and for CNN and a part-time consultant to Human Rights Watch, paints a depressing picture of abuse at the hands of Bangladesh's military intelligence agency. Khalil, who had been writing about the security forces' alleged role...
...saffron so vibrant. It was the convivial atmosphere in Barcelona, the celebration of great food and great company. In the U.S., all too often, the psychological relationship to food is skewed. For many Americans, food is sinful: it’s an escape, a treatment for boredom, a cure for depression. According to Mollie Katzen, celebrated cookbook writer and recipe advisor to HUDS, healthy eating should be about adding great ingredients and savoring each bite—drizzling olive oil on salads to unleash the nutrients in the greens or sprinkling quinoa into a cup of soup to provide...
...Those numbers are good news for retailers in Sugamo, where January 24 is the equivalent of America's Friday after Thanksgiving: As many as 80,000 visitors flock to the area to pay their new year's respects to a famous statue at Koganji Temple believed to cure their ills. With about 200 shops and two temples along Jizo-dori, overflowing with free food samples and women's wear, Sugamo appears to be pioneering retail techniques to the aged...
...sake is also bought as an offering to any of Sugamo's two temples. The main one, Koganji, originally drew seniors to the area because it houses the Arai Kannon that, when washed and scrubbed by believers, is thought to cure illness. In the area surrounding the Kannon statue are two signs: one directs line formation; the other trumpets a nearby defibrillator device. Both signs are there to put Sugamo's visitors at ease...