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...happens, homeopathy was born out of frustration with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease...
Your article proved what German philosopher Martin Heidegger already knew when he decided to sit out the "great" ideological debates of World War II. There is only one ideology, and that is technology, which holds that we should allocate the greatest number of goods to the largest number of people. Capitalism and socialism merely have different theories on how best to achieve that goal, but they never question the goal. The only alternative to the ideology of technology that has given us Siberia and Bhopal, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island is ecology. JORDI ROS Beverly Hills, California...
...sought appointment as ambassador to Japan but had to settle for Germany. In a characteristically blatant concentration on the center of power, Holbrooke cultivated relations with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's top foreign policy expert Joachim Bitterlich, and all but ignored Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, to the irritation of the German foreign office. In October he returned to Foggy Bottom as the top European policymaker...
...Institute; Lisa Dodson, senior research associate at the Health Institute of Tufts/New England Medical Center; Susan Eaton, a government consultant; Pamela Fraser-Abder, associate professor at New York University; Sharland Trotter, a psychologist and former editor of the American Psychological Association Monitor magazine; and Kirsten Wever, director of the German American Project of the International Industrial Relations Association
...Language Requirement. Anyone who has suffered through the lingual hell of a Harvard placement exam realizes the problems in this area. There is no coordination between the material demanded by the language exams and the material taught. If German A or French A is enough to fill the language, the exam should reflect that...