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Take Valeria. She's as fluffy and self-absorbed as her tiny dog Richie. She cannot endure the pain, loneliness and loss that follow the accident. He becomes similarly needy as a result of a mishap that is, at first, more comic than desperate. Their story ends with her staring silently out the window at the blank wall that once held her picture, 10 stories tall, while he snoozes...
Want to give yourself a really good headache? One of those lie-down-in-a-dark-room-with-an-ice-pack-on-the-forehead affairs? Try installing two brand-new operating systems on two different computers at the same time. Nothing causes cranial pain more quickly, as I discovered when I got my hands on the two pieces of software that will soon rule our lives: Windows XP and Mac OS X (pronounced oh-ess ten). These are the next-generation operating systems for PCs and Macs, respectively. Windows XP, to be released later this year, is currently...
...works: using only his hands, Barral coaxes the kidneys, liver, stomach and other soft tissues back to their natural movement by applying soft pressure to the abdomen, thorax and urogenital areas. In this way, he claims to have successfully treated ailments ranging from chronic back and joint pain to indigestion, infection, incontinence, migraines and even impotence and sterility...
Barral came naturally to his vocation. "My grandmother was a healer, and I always liked to touch people," he says. Working as a physical therapist before receiving his osteopathic training in England, he discovered that each internal organ has a capacity to cause pain to the spinal column, whereas conventional osteopathic thinking assumed the opposite. "At the time nobody was talking about manipulating organs," he recalls, "but I kept seeing patients with aches and pains that I could relieve simply by kneading their organs...
...meant stress management too. It also meant being willing to use the powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with acupuncture, kava kava root and preparations from the black cohosh plant as with prescription drugs. "Illness is a message," she says. "Western doctors see it as something to be destroyed, but it can also tell us about how we live our lives...