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...proportion. Perhaps best among these paintings is the well-known "The Child's Bath" of 1893, which displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly balances herself on the woman's knee and seems about to bite her lip as she watches the woman gently washing her foot. This oil painting, like Cassatt's prints, shows evidence of the Japanese influence; the lines are simple and the layout of the picture is flattened, with the floor behind the woman and child pushed...
...National Institutes of Health agreed. Indeed, the NIH believes so strongly in the value of placebo surgeries that it has begun rejecting experiments from university researchers that do not employ them. Today placebo trials are being mounted for a variety of procedures, from knee surgery to the treatment of pain in cancer...
...More than 75% of children who develop eczema--a skin condition that usually erupts around the mouth, on the inside of the elbow or behind the knee--also suffer an allergic reaction to food, mold or other environmental triggers. The foods that most commonly cause reactions are eggs, milk and peanuts...
...knee-jerk, excessively violent reaction to the crime of a black man against a white man, or undue leniency towards a pattern of violence against women? Either way, it's disgusting...
...needs vast improvement--and that teacher competency exams are a necessary component of any education reform--Cellucci's comments about the teachers of this state continue to reveal a scornful and intractable attitude which would make him a terrible teacher, never mind someone overseeing an entire educational system. The knee-jerk prejorative hyperbole he uses on the topic of teacher-testing is disturbing both because of what he says and the venom with which he seems to say it. He has chosen the immediate gratification of political sound-bytes over the long-term good of the educational system...