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...turns out that the placebo effect is especially powerful in Parkinson's disease. That's why Curt Freed at the University of Colorado and Stanley Fahn at Columbia University decided to create a control group whose members could be fooled into thinking they were getting the full surgical treatment. "When you have something as major as surgery," says Fahn, in defense of his experiment, "wouldn't it be best to know there was some benefit...
...medical schools, Queen's is the only alternative for her. There, in a small community of desperate students, over the course of a long first year of heat and studying, Jane begins to change. She becomes detached from herself, mechanically enduring the labors of classwork while her personality (finally freed from her parents' over-whelming influence) plays with the primitive imagery of the island. This section of the book almost resembles Apocalypse Now--it depicts a slow, insane voyage punctuated by the methodical expulsion of students around her, picked off one by one by the sniping, brutal and pitiless teachers...
...impeachment ushered Starr offstage, it also freed up his prosecutors to work quietly on the office's next act. One murky plot line concerns Kathleen Willey's story of presidential groping, which Clinton denied to the grand jury, and what she calls intimidation to silence her. Last week Maryland private detective Jared Stern told TIME that he has appeared twice before Starr's grand jury to answer questions about Willey and Nathan Landow, a Clinton-Gore fund raiser. Landow claims that his lawyer, acting without his permission, hired Stern to investigate Willey. Stern won't comment on who hired...
...about an African-American man, Anthony Porter, who had been on death row for 16 years and came within two days of being executed. Last week, journalism students at Northwestern University found the real murderer and recorded his confession. When released, Porter will be the 76th wrongfully convicted American freed from the hell of death row. How many innocent people have already been murdered by the state, whose administration of justice has been proven to be discriminatory on the basis of both race and class...
...after your wedding, when your mother cuts your hair off, that's your life falling on the floor," a matron tells a bride-to-be. Nattel's women get not only the saltiest lines but also the feistiest roles. Childless Hanna-Leah, the butcher's wife, is freed from disappointment by an ecstatic vision and demands that her husband share the housework. Faygela, poet-mother of five, travels to Warsaw, where she encounters a circle of secular Jewish intellectuals and renounces Yiddish as "the dialect of garlic." Years later, one of Faygela's daughters converts to the new heresies...