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The placebo effect--the expectation that about 35% of patients will show improvement if they are given any kind of treatment at all, even a sugar pill--is one of the givens of modern medicine and, for true believers, the best evidence of the healing power of mind over body...
With one swift stroke, however, that could change. Free Red Sox tickets could go along way towards healing rifts with the Cambridge City Council. A luxury box seat in the new stadium would probably silence Ted Kennedy’s attacks about the living wage.
Time is supposed to be the great healer, the scab that helps us recover from tragedy. When healing comes too quickly, however, we tend to forget how bad our injuries really were. That is certainly the tendency in calamity-prone India. Soon after a flood, drought, cyclone, landslide or train...
Colombia, birthplace of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many of the fables about El Dorado, has long been a land where people search for the extraordinary. So two years ago, singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist-producer Hector Buitrago of the Colombian rock duo Aterciopelados (ah-tair-see-oh-peh-lah...
Events like Camby’s ordeal put sports in perspective. The healing process his family has to endure from this point on transcends the importance of any playoff series, and anyone who faults Camby for his ineffectiveness or his Game 3 absence needs a head examination.