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Twenty years ago, no self-respecting M.D. would have dared to propose a double-blind, controlled study of something as intangible as prayer. Western medicine has spent the past 100 years trying to rid itself of remnants of mysticism. Targ's own field, psychiatry, couldn't be more hostile to spirituality: Sigmund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as "infantile helplessness" and "regression to primary narcissism." Today, while Targ's experiment is not exactly mainstream, it does exemplify a shift among doctors toward the view that there may be more to health than blood-cell counts and ekgs and more to healing...
...these home treatment systems work? That depends, experts say, on what you want them to do. "Not every product does everything," says Nancy Culotta of Michigan's NSF International, an Ann Arbor-based industry watchdog group. Some filtering systems, she notes, merely improve the water's taste by getting rid of relatively harmless inorganic chemicals like sulfur or chlorine. Others do a creditable job of removing lead but aren't designed to purify water tainted by bacteria or other pathogens. And many of the most popular systems need to have their filters frequently replaced, or owners will wind up running...
...deadline for certification approaches, it is suddenly urgent to get rid of Karadzic and Mladic. The problem commands the highest priority at the White House, and other Western officials share the anxiety. Richard Goldstone, chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal, appealed in Washington for military action to apprehend the Bosnian Serb ringleaders but returned last week with no encouragement. Bildt attempted to sideline Karadzic by elevating more moderate political rivals, among them Prime Minister Rajko Kasagic. When Karadzic sacked the Prime Minister two weeks ago, Bildt labored to transform the dismissal into a real power split that would displace Karadzic...
...when the President was popular and so the army sided with him, I'm not at all sure what they would do in such a circumstance." Kozyrev believes the outcome could be a twofold victory for the army. "They don't like the President and would like to be rid of him," he says. "If he loses the election, they could see him gone while at the same time appearing as defenders of the people's will...
...pristine new forums certainly won't replace the dastardly 30-sec. spots. The candidates will still spend whatever they can afford, running whatever ads are most effective. In fact, some commentators argue that getting rid of negative ads should never have been a goal in the first place. "Attack is an indispensable part of politics. If the attack is fair, accurate, in context and relevant to governance, we ought to encourage it," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "I prefer asking, 'Is free TV time going to reduce the amount...