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HEALTH: An obesity drug for teens; plan b emergency contraception; a kinder, gentler tonsillectomy...
Tonsillectomies are not quite so routine these days, but they are still performed more than 400,000 times a year. And they still hurt, even though the standard surgical technique, electrocautery, is a big improvement over the scalpel. But a new study argues for an even kinder and gentler tool: the microdissection needle. Because it uses less energy and causes less pain, the needle moves kids swiftly to the ice cream recovery stage...
...Medicare bill looks like a gift on the surface, but it is actually a Trojan horse, with a bellyful of woe for young and old alike. No doubt Bush is banking that this largesse will furnish him with a kinder, gentler image just in time for the 2004 election. But in fact, he’s up to his usual tricks: rewarding his contributors and scoring political points while obscuring the long-run costs of his latest debacle...
...Black’s universe of compassionate conservatism, a kinder, gentler pepper spray or water cannon might be in order. The benefits of FTAA should be so obvious that only social “misfits” and “foreign carriers of the anti-American lunacy” are apt to challenge its triumph. This week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report noted that security police had apparently taken such advice to heart and were indeed searching for less violent techniques to deal with incipient anti-FTAA unrest; but one Miami shop clerk claimed...
...course, the gruff men and women at 5-0400 can hardly be expected to outfit the Party Shuttle with a keg, but a flask in hand will ensure that even the University’s alcohol policy won’t get in the way of a kinder, gentler, tipsier trip down Garden St.—and it will surely help get through those awful morning cores. Forget harvardparties.com: shuttletime.harvard.edu is where it?...