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...Though all these factors would have helped the pair stay calm while trapped, they may have little bearing on whether the men experience psychological ill effects in the future. "It wasn't in their interests to lose it [while they were underground]," says University of Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but a lot of people, once they're in a safe place, experience a more intense emotional response." The danger for Webb and Russell is post-traumatic stress disorder, whose many and varied symptoms can take up to a decade to emerge. Relative levels of stoicism aren't pointers...
...Having grown accustomed to your derogatory, ill-informed and prejudiced articles on the royal family, usually relegated to the People page, I was surprised by the balance, objectivity and depth achieved by your report on the Queen's 80th birthday. Congratulations on an informative and thoroughly professional piece of journalism. I hope you will continue to treat the Queen with the respect she has earned and so richly deserves. David Hipshon Twickenham, England...
Though noble in its intent, the Florida plan is an ill-conceived attempt to apply a simple, cheap, and ultimately harmful, medication to cure an epidemic. If Florida, or any state for that matter, is serious about improving public education, it should stop playing with fire by rejecting high school majors and instead get out its checkbook...
...whatever period or region, to be amazed." Like few other creations of the human hand, it is a patrimony not of any one country or culture, but of humankind as a whole. Yet Lascaux's robust longevity belies a frightening fragility. Five years ago, after the ill-conceived installation of new climatic equipment, Lascaux suffered an outbreak of fungal infection that threatened to destroy in a few years what thousands of millenniums had left largely unscathed. The cave's custodians are still struggling to eradicate this scourge. Since a journalist from French science magazine La Recherche was allowed into...
Last September, Clinton and adviser Ira Magaziner--one of the architects of the ill-fated 1994 health-care-reform plan--began approaching food and beverage companies about voluntarily controlling what they sell to kids. Of all the unhealthy foods students consume, sugary beverages were the obvious place to start. First of all, kids drink tons of the stuff. The average 11-to-14-year-old consumes almost twice as much soda as water; 15-to-19-year-olds pour down an average of two 12-oz. servings of soda every day--in the process consuming 1.5 lbs. of sugar each...