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...weight-loss program, the unenrolled spouse tends to lose about 5 lb. Now Gorin is exploring whether enlisting the support of spouses can help both partners shed more pounds. In June she wrapped up a 16-week pilot study of 20 couples, in one of which, the support person lost more weight than the main participant in the study...
...Hortensia Bussi, 94, lost her husband, Chilean President Salvador Allende, and her status as First Lady in the bloody military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. Undeterred, she continued to campaign against Pinochet's dictatorship while exiled in Mexico...
...captures the excitement and promise of this new orientation within psychiatry. I wanted to offer a couple of clarifications: You state that those who met our criteria for risk of psychosis were 30 times as likely to develop the illness as those in the general population. Something got lost in translation in my interview with John Cloud; in fact, our research shows that such a person is more than 400 times as likely to develop psychosis. Also, the necessary critical mass of controlled, randomized clinical-trial treatment data has yet to be gathered, so it is premature to conclude that...
American movies took ages to address Iraq and its satellite wars, and then tended to point fingers at the military. Documentaries said that soldiers were bred to be mindless killers (The Ground Truth) and then discarded when they lost their limbs or their minds (Body of War). Dramatic films like In the Valley of Elah and Redacted said that Iraq was a communicable disease that turned decent guys into psycho killers...
...baby boomers who came of age during the Vietnam War, McNamara's actions at the time spoke louder than the words of contrition he would utter three decades after 58,000 Americans had lost their lives in Vietnam. In their youth, they referred to the Vietnam conflict as "McNamara's war." Tens of thousands of them marched to protest against it in Washington, while thousands of young men burned their draft cards or fled to Canada to avoid the draft. One poured gasoline on himself outside McNamara's Pentagon window in 1965 and set himself ablaze, dying to protest...