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...psychologically unsettling, even more so than using a lifeless prosthesis. "It requires someone who is completely unable to accept a prosthesis, someone who simply can't incorporate it into his body image," says Jones. Patients must also live with the knowledge that their newfound dexterity may decline over time if rejection sets in. Perhaps most troubling, though, is the drug regimen. The pills, steroids in particular, are known to increase the risk of infection, diabetes, kidney disease and cancer. Still, for a man in the prime of life to have a new working hand--and finally be able to wear...
Stories like these and other inequities are at the root of the newfound momentum in Washington to junk the estate tax, which currently reaches rates as high as 55%. The House passed a repeal bill in June, and with few changes, the Senate signed off on it last month. President Clinton has vowed to veto the bill, which he calls a tax break for the superrich, and there does not appear to be enough support for an override. Still, the issue promises to have legs...
...BACKLASH STARTS HERE The habit of naming an urban district by fragmenting and contracting the names of its borders (e.g., Manhattan's SoHo, South of Houston Street), hoping to imply a newfound hipness, has grown into a cultural virus...
...Union membership, long a given for most of the country's traditional telephone workforce, remains an unreachable ideal for many in the wireless world. Telecommunications giants, basking in their newfound power over the wireless marketplace, jealously guard any competitive advantage and discourage union talk among their new employees, occasionally to the point of intimidation (at least one Verizon worker has reported threats from management after she began looking into union membership...
...could the newfound commercial attention hurt the cause? "Sometimes, I wish the word dosha had never been discovered in the West," says Shafi Saxena, who founded Better Botanicals with her husband in 1995. The company's herbal products are based on Ayurvedic tenets. "I'm afraid it will discredit the system. Look at aromatherapy: everything that smelled good was aromatherapeutic." So while Ayurveda has lasted millennums in India, it remains to be seen how long it can withstand the American attention span...