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...definitely do. The increased hostility to doctors over the past couple of years—including the growth of malpractice suits and decrease in average salary for doctors—has also forced some to take more time to reconsider their career plans. Some premeds even pointed to the prospect of a universal health-care system as a disincentive to wanting to proceed immediately to medical school...
...prolong life? That tantalizing prospect was raised in 1989 with the publication of a smaller study of women with advanced breast cancer by Stanford University's David Spiegel, who found that participants who'd received SEGT lived an average 17 months longer than those in the control group. The implications seemed enormous: if psychological intervention could help people with advanced cancer, what might it do for those in the early stages of the disease? Alas, while several replication trials have since supported Spiegel's findings, an equal number have done the opposite. Kissane, along with the Thursday Girls' current therapists...
...quotas may not be entirely bleak for the developing world. In Pakistan, for example, sales of some items in which the country's manufacturers are internationally competitive, such as bedsheets and towels, could jump. But only one country in South Asia truly relishes the prospect of the new regime. "After China, India will be the biggest beneficiary of the lifting of quotas," says O.P. Lohia, managing director of Indo Rama Synthetics, a New Delhi-based, leading manufacturer of synthetic fibers. India has advantages that many of its neighbors lack: it grows raw materials like cotton, has a giant manufacturing base...
...royal mess in Iraq will be a challenge for any president to clean up. After the horrific damage—in terms of infrastructure and human lives—the war has inflicted, we have reservations about the prospect for quick stabilization in the region. But Kerry’s plan to begin to turn chaos into order is, at the very least, a reasonable start. The internationalization of the burden is a necessary step that the Bush administration should have taken long ago, and we hope that efforts to train Iraqi security forces will be more whole-hearted than...
...finale continues the series' minutely observed, uncomfortable humor. The closest American equivalent is Curb Your Enthusiasm, though NBC is attempting a remake of The Office, starring Daily Show alum Steve Carell, for next year--a nerve-racking prospect, given that NBC's last such import was Coupling. Executive producer Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) says the show will have a new setting--the Dunder-Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pa.--but similar characters and sensibility. "We love the awkward pause," he says...