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...appoint a false-memory working group to investigate the phenomenon. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association last May, the issue of false memories was addressed in three sessions and heatedly debated by experts on both sides. The American Medical Association's house of delegates also indicated its discomfort with such memory-enhancement techniques as guided imagery, hypnosis and body massage, all of which heighten suggestibility and are widely employed by recovered- memory therapists. Use of these practices in eliciting accounts of childhood sexual abuse, the AMA delegates concluded, was "fraught with problems of potential misapplication...
...still smarting from Packwood's veiled threat of two weeks ago, privately agree that he should resign. That step not only would bring a rapid end to the ethics committee's sexual-misconduct inquiry, prompted by allegations by at least 26 women, but would also spare the Senate the discomfort of deciding what punitive action to take if the charges prove convincing (although his resignation would not prevent the women from pursuing lawsuits). If he fails to resign, the ethics committee may decide to push forward shortly with open hearings on the sexual-harassment charges. A colleague could also call...
...paintings by local artists. The tables are few and well-spaced, giving you plenty of privacy for those intimate games of footsy (sorry about that, Annette). The low ceilings are a little disturbing, but the brightness of the walls--and the food--will soon make you forget the minor discomfort. The paintings are not going to make your eyes bleed; they actually provide a wonderful juxtaposition with the spartan surroundings...
...Discomfort from sore, inflamed joints may someday cease to plague the 2.1 million Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, if an oral treatment for the condition developed by scientists at the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital pans...
Gays say that what makes their children uncomfortable is not homosexuality itself but society's intolerant attitude toward it. Conservatives counter that the discomfort comes from learning the useful lesson that a parent's life- style is immoral...