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...with a subgroup of patients who report that they sense a closeness to God while meditating. In a five-year study of patients using meditation to battle chronic illnesses, Benson found that those who claim to feel the intimate presence of a higher power had better health and more rapid recoveries...
...benefit; that the government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space of a generation, this lethal disease was made survivable with transplants, then curable with drugs...
Although the path of medical research may seem slow, he said, the rate of progress is "astoundingly rapid in retrospect...
Late at night, while most of Washington sleeps, two political strategists are jaw-boning on the phone. Polishing the next big speech, "war gaming" the next five clashes with their opponent, they argue in a kind of rapid-fire code, a political shorthand developed during a 17-year partnership. One of the two strategists happens to be the President of the U.S. The other, a banty, cocksure New Yorker named Dick Morris, is the most influential--and infamous--political consultant on the planet...
Part of Rudenstine's difficulties in implementing his vision of a more unified University has certainly been the rapid change and even turmoil that has been associated with the position of provost...