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Each of these characters tells his story to an avid listener: Randy to the hitman (Michael Douglas, who also produced the movie) he has hired to rid himself of Jewel; Dehling to his brother (Richard Jenkins), who is a priest; Carl to a psychiatrist (Reba McEntire)--wow, this is a well-cast movie. But none of them can do much more than offer sympathy for the poor dopes' entrapments. For what is possibly the funniest thing about McCool's is how easily the men fall into Jewel's clutches...
...most definitive study yet of the efficacy of St. John's wort in treating major depression, doctors last week concluded that the extract is essentially useless. On the basis of these findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Shelton, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University and the study's lead author, says flatly that he wouldn't recommend St. John's wort to any of his patients. As for the 30 or so earlier trials showing that the herb had some therapeutic value, he--like many other scientists--dismisses them as badly designed, inadequate or otherwise...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...
...less surprised by the news about St. John's wort than Stephen Barrett, 67, a retired Allentown, Pa., psychiatrist who for nearly 30 years has made it his business to sniff out health-related frauds, fads, myths and fallacies. Through newsletters, books and now the World Wide Web, he has become one of America's premier debunkers of what he likes to call quackery...
...they're shortsighted, say the experts on play. Alvin Rosenfeld, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, holds an old-fashioned view of play: it's joyful and emotionally nourishing. Stuart Brown, a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., believes that too little play may have a dark side. What Brown calls "play deprivation" can lead, he says, to depression, hostility and the loss of "the things that make us human beings...