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...should pat themselves on the back if they're able to recoup a horse's livery fees through prize money. Snagging a champion horse requires lots of luck. "All the things in a [winning] horse - courage, constitution, the will to win - are things you can't see," says Peter Horwitz, president of the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association of New South Wales in Australia...
...women who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the soldiers who have come back scarred and maimed? If we stop commemorating 9/11, it will become just another event in the history books that will eventually fade from the collective memory. We must not forget. Esther Ann Horwitz, COLORADO SPRINGS...
...stop commemorating 9/11, it will become just another event in the history books that will eventually fade from the collective memory. We must not forget. Esther Ann Horwitz, Colorado Springs...
...society; in 1956, 5% of Americans were on tranquilizers. But today 7% of Americans are on antidepressants (many more have tried them), and ads have touted the drugs for ordinary problems like fatigue, loneliness and sadness. Still, drug companies aren't the (sole) villain in this story. As Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield point out in their incisive new book The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (Oxford; 287 pages), we now have a "legal drug culture" built around the widely accepted idea that feeling blue is an illness. Horwitz, dean of social and behavioral...
Still, is there anything wrong with medicating normal sadness if you don't mind side effects? Horwitz and Wakefield take no position on this. They point out that women giving birth take painkillers even though pain is a normal part of the process. But the authors also note that "loss responses are part of our biological heritage." Nonhuman primates separated from sexual partners or peers have physiological responses that correlate with sadness, including higher levels of certain hormones. Human infants express despair to evoke sympathy from others. These sadness responses suggest sorrow is genetic and that it is useful...