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...help it can get. Ever since Case, then head of AOL, and Gerald Levin, then chief of Time Warner, agreed two years ago to complete the $106 billion deal in which the online upstart bought the old-media giant, their union has produced a Shakespearean torrent of pain and recrimination. As the Internet bubble burst and advertising slid into recession, the company's executives were slow to adjust their lavish profit-growth promises to Wall Street, which struck back hard. Having tumbled from a high of $56.60, the price of AOL Time Warner's widely held stock stood...
...rudimentary transaction of remorse-apology-forgiveness is just the beginning of Gobodo-Madikizela's struggle with the meaning of evil and of De Kock. The black psychologist was so moved by the white man's pain that at one point she reached out and touched his shaking hand. The gesture startled them both. Around such moments, Gobodo-Madikizela has composed a beautiful moral document that is without a whisper of easy grace. --By Lance Morrow
...local hospital in southern Iraq. But Owaid, who has blood cancer, is not getting any better. He has clots in his eyes and his lips are bleeding. Yasmin says that many kids in her village are falling sick. Most of them have the same symptoms: fever and pain in their joints because of swollen lymph nodes. Dr.Hussan walks past rows of sick beds, talking to desperate parents and their children. "All these patients are the same," he says. "They are all victims...
...hardening of the arteries, especially in African Americans with high blood pressure. People suffering from anxiety disorders also appreciate the lowered stress, reduced blood pressure and slowed heart rates associated with meditation. Similarly, there is growing evidence that a meditation program can have a positive, sustained effect on chronic pain and mood, including depression and anxiety. In an even more dramatic example, initial research has suggested that meditation combined with dietary changes may slow tumor progression in prostate-cancer patients...
ASPIRIN For a little white pill that costs pennies, aspirin may be the closest thing we will ever find to a wonder drug. Not only does it relieve headaches, ease the pain of arthritis and thin the blood to ward off strokes and heart attacks, but as we learned last year, it may also protect against cancers of the pancreas, colon and prostate and even forestall Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, we also learned that aspirin isn't a wonder drug for everyone: some 30% of Americans are aspirin resistant and may need either higher doses or a different drug altogether...