Word: jeffreys
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...Funds to Fight Malaria Re "The $10 solution" [Jan. 15]: Jeffrey D. Sachs proposed that people in the high-income world pay $3 per year - which would amount to $3 billion total - to prevent malaria in Africa because "this is an amount that is too large for Africa but truly tiny for the rich world." But you and I have already paid this amount over a hundredfold through our tax money, which has been given as relief and aid to corrupt African leaders who have salted it away. Shouldn't our governments be doing something to seize those stolen funds...
...series of experiments, for instance, Jeffrey Schwartz and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can quiet activity in the circuit that underlies obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), just as drugs do. Schwartz had become intrigued with the therapeutic potential of mindfulness meditation, the Buddhist practice of observing one's inner experiences as if they were happening to someone else...
...than 40,000 titles in stock. He remembers Around the World in 80 Days and a book called Down the River, about a group of children who sailed downstream, got lost and had a series of adventures, as big hits among budding English readers. His own favorite authors include Jeffrey Archer and John Grisham...
...celebrities, entertainment industry heavyweights and Hollywood's Democratic powerbrokers. "I call this the courting phase," says Los Angeles political consultant Andy Spahn, who gets a call almost every day from a politician or his aide inquiring about a meeting with his clients, the Dreamworks power bloc of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
...Doctors watching it all from the sidelines note that there are serious medical questions at stake. For one thing, there is no way to know the effect of high-dose estrogen on such a young girl. "Before moving forward wholesale, we need to study it carefully," says Dr. Jeffrey Brosco, an associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami, who wrote a dissent in the journal where the case was published. "Right now it is truly an experimental treatment." But he is sure there will be more interest: just last week a family he treats had to put their...