Word: herbert
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...call complementary medicine. Harvard Medical School, a bastion of high-end biomedical research, offers a course on how alternative treatments might affect clinical practice and research. Harvard has also endowed a Mind/Body Medical Institute chair, the first in the field of behavioral medicine, which is currently held by Dr. Herbert Benson, the fervent promoter of the "relaxation response," a physiological state of decreased blood pressure, heart rate, metabolism and respiration. Harvard professor Dr. David Eisenberg, who studied Chinese medicine in Beijing, directs the Center for Alternative Medicine Research at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Stanford offers its medical students...
...Christian Coalition-controlled Republican Party reminds me of the early Puritans. All that's missing are the wooden stocks and the burning of the witches. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since 1928, when I voted for Herbert Hoover, but no longer. ROBERT R. HELMERICHS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
...DIED. HERBERT HUNCKE, 81, hustler and hooligan who gave the Beats their name and William S. Burroughs his first fix; in New York City. He was a character in the works of his cronies Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac...
Perhaps the most interesting story of the three is Dow's. A longtime Republican who first voted in 1928 for Herbert Hoover, Dow has spent his life waging what he described as fruitless battles for conservatism in Cambridge...
...would be easy to say all eyes were on Atlanta, but the film industry has problems that won't end with the closing ceremonies. "The movie business isn't bleeding to death, but it's bleeding," says Herbert Allen Jr., the entertainment industry's eminent investment banker. It wouldn't appear that way from the resounding success of such megahits as Independence Day and Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor...