Word: effective
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...College. On the other hand, bringing these activities under the umbrella of Harvard will be unifying for the campus. For example, this week's Take Back The Night (TBTN) programs are organized by RUS and sponsored by Radcliffe, a patronage that might have the unintended effect of distancing male undergraduates from involvement in the movement. We need one college for all students, one which actively supports and promotes women's issues on campus...
...those skeptical of the possibilities of alternative medicine, consider a well-known and accepted medical reality: the so-called placebo effect, which refers to changes in a patient's health in response to sugar pills. Understood as a psychological response to the expectation that medication will heal, and therefore a consequence of a patient's feelings and expectations, the placebo effect indicates clearly the power of the mind to help cure the body...
...placebo effect has been singled out by many as the main reason for the efficacy of alternative therapies. It is unreasonable to dismiss all alternative medicines as working through the placebo effect, because of the systematic and controlled scientific studies which have begun to demonstrate the validity of such treatments as acupuncture or herbal medicine. The pervasiveness of the placebo effect, which we must keep in mind when examining both conventional and alternative medicine, reminds us that controlled, double-blind studies are essential for assessing the efficacy of any type of therapy...
...board of regents banned race as a factor in admitting this year's class. Fearing a sizable drop in minority enrollment, some supporters of the new plan hoped that the redesigned admissions criteria would sustain campus diversity, without taking account of race per se, after the ban went into effect...
...bitten were suddenly vividly manifest. It was eerie. As sindonologist Ian Wilson puts it in his new book, The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real (Free Press; 333 pages; $25), "The clear implication was that the shroud itself was, in effect, a photographic negative that had been waiting dormant, like a preprogrammed time capsule, for the moment that photography's invention would release its hidden true 'positive...