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...taking a sugar pill can make you feel better, it must be all in your head, right? There's some truth to that, it turns out. Using an imaging technique that maps differences in blood flow in the brain, researchers were able to watch the placebo effect in action. Subjects were given harmless but painful electric shocks and then given a cream they were told would provide relief but actually contained no active ingredients. After the bogus salve was applied, scans showed that nerve activity in the brains of volunteers visibly changed. Regions involved in easing pain became more active...
When it was approved in 2000 as an alternative to surgical abortion, RU 486 was hailed by women's groups as the greatest breakthrough since the Pill. But after the deaths of three women who had taken the drug to terminate unwanted pregnancies, the FDA issued a black-box warning about the risk of death from bacterial infections and other complications. The pill's supporters insist that when properly used, RU 486 is no riskier than a surgical abortion and considerably safer than carrying a pregnancy to term...
...THOMAS WATKINS Pill Pusher...
Murdoch lined up support last week from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns 3% of News' nonvoting shares and said he was willing to convert those shares into voting stock and buy even more. A second prong of defense emerged earlier, when Murdoch's board adopted a "poison pill" provision that would make it hugely expensive for Malone to add to his stake. Poison pills don't sit well with shareholder groups. "They generally are adopted by boards unilaterally just when shareholders least like to see them," says Ann Yerger, acting executive director at the Council of Institutional Investors...
Marriage can be a pill. Especially when you have been hired to kill your husband and--unbeknownst to you--he has been retained to return the favor. In next June's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE play married assassins who keep their real identities secret until they each get assigned a job that hits a little too close to home. The fallout is matrimonial as much as it is martial. Now, don't worry: there are still pyrotechnics and Jolie's trademark self-performed stunts. But in the end, the characters find that the toughest thing...