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...receiving a new pain-relieving treatment leads to actual reduction of symptoms. "What is it about the therapeutic experience that really helps people? This study raises the question that if there are pathways to relief that work more through mind than through the body, why should it matter from the perspective of patients?" says Cherkin...
...Listen, all of you spoiled brats, STFU and stop spamming our mailboxes In the grand scheme of things, does any of this actually matter? The answer is ‘No.’” (This guy is always FlyBy's favorite on the email lists. Better or worse than section guy? We say worse...STFU and stop complaining about your mailbox getting spammed, at least...
...comes at a time when the debate over prisoner mistreatment is still roiling America's political and public conscience. The new photographs are being made public in a victory for the American Civil Liberties Union. And the Pentagon, after fighting, and losing, three federal court reviews of the matter, has waved the white flag and is now preparing to release the pictures. Some of the photographs are official; some, like the original Abu Ghraib collection, taken informally by soldiers. "We know this could make things tougher for our troops," a senior Pentagon official says, "but the court decisions really...
...would it appear if the U.S., the chief culprit of climate change, continued to emit and emit merely because it could financially afford to? It is a fact that the U.S. cannot trade away all of its emissions credits and will have to make cuts no matter what, but the point still stands. Although aggregate admissions rates would still fall, the sense of shared sacrifice would be lost. Sandel claims the commodification of emissions might remove the stigma associated with emissions. Paying for emissions could very well just become the price of doing business as usual...
...more urgent. A publicly traded company has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders—by law, it must care only about their good; a nonprofit organization has made a commitment to be run for the general social good. As such, the meaning of this goal is a matter for public, not private, debate, and having a valuable opinion on it does not, as was implied in a recent editorial, require full access to Harvard’s balance sheet...