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First described in the medical literature in the 1780s, the placebo effect can work all manner of curative magic against all manner of ills. Give a patient a sugar pill but call it an analgesic, and pain may actually go away. Parkinson's disease patients who underwent a sham surgery...
Then there is U.S. support for Israel. Anti-Zionism is an ideological pillar of the Islamic revolution. One of the first things Khomeini did after the revolution, according to Salah Zawawi, the Palestinian ambassador to Iran for the past 27 years, was to raise the slogan "Today Iran, tomorrow Palestine...
Gates, the U.S.'s 22nd Defense Secretary, has declared a low-key war against the military services and the way they develop and buy the weapons they use to defend the nation. Up until now, he has done that mostly by jawboning: The U.S. can't "eliminate national-security risks...
'We hope for an amicable solution.' PAUL COLFORD, Associated Press director of media relations, after the AP declared that it owns the copyright--and deserves credit and compensation--for the image used by graphic artist Shepard Fairey in his iconic portrait of Barack Obama
6 | Madagascar A BLOODY CRACKDOWN Police killed more than 25 protesters on Feb. 7 in Antananarivo, the capital, when they fired into a crowd that was demanding the ouster of President Marc Ravolomanana. The episode came a week after Antananarivo's mayor and media entrepreneur, Andry Rajoelina, proclaimed himself the...