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...seniors during the transition to private accounts. Some favor borrowing the money, while others think taxes need to be raised or benefits cut to avoid adding to the deficit. The President, while opposing tax hikes, has yet to deliver a concrete proposal. "If you can fix this thing without pain, sign me up," says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. And if you can escape the propaganda war over Social Security in '05, you're not paying attention. --By Eric Roston
...mastectomy--she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a particular problem of repressed personalities, a notion that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. And in her 1977 book On Photography she proposed that photographs were a kind of moral anesthesia, deadening our response to pain by reproducing images of suffering until they become banalities...
...position she partly repudiated two years ago in another book, Regarding the Pain of Others. In fact, re-examining old positions was a lifelong habit. In 1968, after a trip to Hanoi, she produced an essay that struggled to approve the bland totalitarianism of the North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote...
BENEFITS: Relieves pain, tenderness and swelling. RISKS: Stomach irritation and bleeding. Drowsiness. Unpublished data suggest it may promote heart disease, but other studies indicate a cardioprotective effect. If you experience blurred vision, skin rash, ringing in the ears or signs of internal bleeding, such as bloody vomit or dark stools, contact a physician...
DIED. JULIUS AXELROD, 92, Nobel-prizewinning neuroscientist whose research helped steer the study and treatment of mental states into the field of brain chemistry; in Rockville, Md. Early in his career, Axelrod helped identify the pain reliever acetaminophen (Tylenol is a popular brand) before moving on to his signature work, which led to the development of the class of antidepressants that includes Prozac and Zoloft...