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Pretty much everyone--everyone not directly involved in the business of clothing, that is--agrees that something has to be done about the waning weight of models. Twenty years ago, the average model was a size 8; today she's a size 0. It's easy to explain why models are so skinny--because of their strict dietary regimen of nicotine, arugula and rock-star boyfriends. But nobody can explain why they have to be that...
Doctors were as hard-pressed to treat phantom pain as they were to explain it. They resorted to trial and error, using remedies originally intended for other ailments that seemed to relieve nerve pain. I had a sampling on my nightstand: pills to combat seizures and depression, lozenges for bronchitis, allergy nasal spray, arthritis cream, medicated patches for shingles and an electro-stimulation device. It was hard to tell if any of them worked. The crushing, stabbing pain in my right hand flared and subsided--but never went away. Doctors said it might last a month, a year...
...problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. Every family in America has had challenges to struggle through. But the kinds of problems people actually deal with are covered by few people besides Oprah and Dr. Phil - which helped explain why they're the cultural phenomena they...
...Nation of Holocaust Deniers? The president's skepticism is, surprisingly, shared by many Iranians. But that doesn't mean they are anti-Israel. Let me explain...
...according to a National Academy of Sciences expert panel, Summers’ wish has come true. The expert panel said in a report released yesterday that “bias and outmoded practices”—not biological differences—explain why women continue to be underrepresented on the hard-science faculties of universities and colleges...