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Winning the trust of patients can be painfully slow because of the burdens of their past. "Absolutely everything they had taken for granted and counted on was removed," explains Richard Reoch of Amnesty International's London office. "It's a moral inversion where every human being you encounter has as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Salvaging Victims of Torture | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

The novel seems to be building toward a contemporary inversion of the Oedipus myth, in which the father would possess the son's bride. That impression is heightened by the best and perhaps most autobiographical scenes, as the narrator recalls a childhood of willful rudeness and neglect by his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battleground | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

One of the most popular, and controversial, types of back-relief products is so-called gravity-inversion equipment, which began selling fast after Richard Gere was shown hanging heels over head in the 1980 film American Gigolo. Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., introduced the first inversion product: ankle straps now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Relief | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Though researchers at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine warned this summer that using inversion gear could be dangerous for people with histories of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, glaucoma and several other ailments, sales have not been hurt much. Gravity Guidance expects its revenues to surge from $12 million in 1982...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Relief | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Bok's surprisingly modest salary salary reflects the two chief tenets of Harvard's approach to setting administrators' pay. To the extent that the president's wages are topped by those of his Harvard underlings, the inversion shows the importance Harvard puts on market considerations and individual performance in setting...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Passing Out the Bucks | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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