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...student beside him stops squirming, and Summers breathes a sigh of relief...
Your story "How To Heal a Hypochondriac" was unfair to many people who desperately visit doctor after doctor for some relief from their debilitating symptoms [HEALTH, Oct. 6]. When basic tests don't reveal anything, a patient is told there is nothing wrong and therefore it must be "all in your head." After doing my own research on the Internet, I learned that my problem has a name, fibromyalgia. Now that I am receiving proper treatment, I am doing better. True hypochondria must certainly be a problem, but as long as doctors label a patient a hypochondriac before ruling...
DIED. JOAN KROC, 75, a railroad worker's daughter who became a philanthropist known for her generous, often anonymous donations to causes ranging from youth programs to famine relief; of brain cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The widow of McDonald's owner Ray Kroc, she took control of baseball's San Diego Padres after his death in 1984 (when they won the National League pennant) and ran the team for six years...
...true American objective is to fight terrorism born of Islamic fundamentalism, it would have been far more effective to spend the same amount of money (or less) on education and the relief of poverty in Islamic countries instead of spending tens of billions of dollars on a military operation in Iraq. Young Muslims are not born terrorists. Some go to madrasahs [Islamic schools] because they cannot afford to go anywhere else. Some go to madrasahs just to get food. It all starts there. Fight that. Olivier Temam Paris...
...further bolster this proposal, I would fully repeal the Bush tax cut and impose a “Fair Tax” system in its place that would provide real relief to working people with a focus on giving breaks to new businesses not old millionaires...