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...that patients have been undermedicated for decades, suffering needlessly. One reason was concern that big doses of opiates could depress respiration, but a large part stemmed from an exaggerated fear that patients would become addicted. This fear, which continues to hold sway over American medicine, is basically unwarranted. A landmark study, published in 1982, followed almost 12,000 Boston hospital patients who had been given narcotic pain-killers. After eliminating those with a history of addiction, researchers found that only four became addicted to the drugs they received as patients. "You don't see cancer patients running around robbing shopping...
...landmark movements that have shaped the modern era -- from the ocean voyages of Columbus and Magellan to the Protestant Reformation and the print revolution, from the development of the scientific method to the Industrial Revolution -- were largely produced by those hated demons of American multiculturalists, dead white European males. Until 1400, all but a handful of innovations in European life had been anticipated by the Arabs or the Chinese. After 1600, virtually every technological change that affected the world and the way people lived -- from the telescope to the typewriter, from the fork to the steam engine -- has been...
...author relied entirely on secondary sources rather than on firsthand knowledge. In a muddled chapter on dance, George Balanchine, who revolutionized the vocabulary of classical ballet, gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances for films like I Was an Adventuress. Ignored also are Balanchine's two greatest contemporaries: Antony Tudor and Sir Frederick Ashton...
...unlikely a shopping trip as that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced that it would soon begin dismantling its $57 billion financial and merchandising empire...
...changed." Well, not recently, anyway. Bush backed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision when he ran for President in 1980, but moved to the right as Vice President under Reagan during the 1980s and, in order to curry favor with the G.O.P. conservatives, eventually came to oppose the landmark decision...