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...sound like the current presidential campaign, but the year was 1800 and the beleaguered candidate was Thomas Jefferson. Four years earlier, he had lost the presidency to John Adams in an election fraught with religious angst. Jacobin revolutionaries had taken over France, closed its churches and threatened to export their reign of terror. Supporters of Adams' Federalist Party linked Jefferson to the French secularists through his defense of revolutionary France and support for the separation of church and state. Adams, in contrast, they argued, was a man of God who opposed radical French ideas, and under his rule America...
...Girl” of journalism and you’ve published a book on gender relations in the 21st century. Why is it so hard for a smart, together Harvard girl to get a date? “Gender relations are always going to be fraught. Coming of age in the 60s we all believed that when Gloria Steinem and Betty Freidan finished there were would be no more cat fights about who made more. I don’t worry about it all that much if you keep a sense of humor. It’s not as easy...
...organization. The VA should be blind regarding the specific structure and tenets of a religion. As Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote in Lemon v. Kurtzman, “This kind of state inspection and evaluation of the religious content of a religious organization is fraught with the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids.” Rather, the VA should adopt a methodology more similar to that of the IRS, which makes no attempt to evaluate the content of the belief system in its evaluations for religious tax exemptions...
...still, many patients fail to acknowledge that those threats exist. For some, admitting to stress feels like a sign of weakness; others resign themselves to it, as if it were an unavoidable dimension of life. So most of us simply carry on with our 15-hour workdays and fraught relationships. In another study published in the October 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers at the University College of London followed a group of about 9,000 civil servants for 12 years and found that people who experienced negative close relationships - marked by conflict and fighting...
...Getting Well For those women in the developing world who do get help, the path to recovery can be no less fraught than the path to diagnosis. Thirty years ago, treatment automatically meant mastectomy. By the 1980s, studies showed that for tumors that had not spread, all that might be required is a so-called lumpectomy, in which only the mass itself and the immediate surrounding area are cut away, provided that surgery is followed by radiation to destroy any rogue cancer cells. The subsequent need for chemotherapy depends on the degree of spread, the type of cancer and other...