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While vanity got me started with weight lifting--or "strength training," as it's called these days--concerns about my health are what will keep me pumping. Men may lift more weight, but weight lifting does more good for women. Studies show that strength training can delay the onset of osteoporosis (a particular problem for women), lower blood pressure, even reduce cholesterol levels. And you don't have to be in your 30s to benefit. "I started working with a 92-year-old woman after she fell and broke her ankle," says Miriam Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Tufts University...
Freud unequivocally stated that psychotherapy was ineffective at treating psychoses, or what he called "impenetrable darknesses" like schizophrenia. But his disciples set out to prove him wrong. From the onset, their intentions were not necessarily bad. One psychotherapist would sit in the urine of her schizophrenic patients to "prove she was no better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions...
October brings the onset of restlessness, Mandarin-speaking TFs, frigid air and the rumblings of social action. In an unfortunate coincidence, it also marks the opening of the punch season for Harvard's legendary final clubs. The results: anxious muckrakers, rejuvenated by summer internships with the National Organization for women, find an easy target their festering impulse to eradicate injustice. Every year the clubs are subjected to the same tired assaults on the petty, ill-reasoned grounds. As a result, those being punched feel compelled to stage embarrassing displays of moral incertitude and false humility, while campus publications chime...
...subject not always in the headlines but always vital to our future: preservation of the environment. Efforts to conserve natural resources have long been a preoccupation of TIME's, from our naming of Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year in 1989 to recent coverage of the apparent onset of global warming...
...very real threat to those in their 50s. Most men don't go to the bone-densitometry lab. I did so only because of the association between kidney stones and bone loss. Mild bone loss in both men and women begins in the late 20s. But with the onset of menopause, women begin losing 1% to 5% of bone mass each year...