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...such brain stimulation can lead to peaks of performance and awareness. Why should Mozart's music be the focal point of this debate, rather than other classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven or Chopin? Many sounds, from Hindu chanting to the noise of the surf breaking on a shore, are believed to be therapeutic. As for classical music, Gérard Mortier, the director of the Paris opera, is one of many who reckons that Mozart isn't the only composer who soothes. "You find the most appropriate music for the pathology," Mortier says. "For some people it might...
Administration officials say the criticism misses the many steps being taken to shore up the country's biodefenses. They point out that the U.S. has been stockpiling countermeasures, such as 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. Since 2001 HHS has doled out $5.5 billion to state and local governments for bioterrorism emergency-response programs, and including BioShield, the government has spent about $18 billion on biodefense. "No matter how hard we try, some steps in the process cannot be rushed," said Stewart Simonson, assistant secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, defending BioShield's slow start before Congress in July...
Determined to shore up your marriage this year? With nearly half of marriages ending in divorce, a million American men a year have the door slammed on their faces by dissatisfied wives. The author, a psychiatrist and marriage counselor, insists that many of these men can save their marriages. When men "work hard to improve their marriages by using their inborn manly skills to put their wives' needs above their own," says Haltzman, "not only do their marriages improve but they are happier and more fulfilled than at any other point in their lives. "Divorce is ugly, says the author...
...medical advantages are enormous: by cloning a patient?s own cells to create stem cells, then coaxing those stem cells to become new pancreatic, brain, spinal cord or heart tissue, for example, it?s conceivable that a victim of Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, diabetes, paralysis or heart disease could shore up damaged organs with new, healthy and-most important-rejection-proof replacements. (These are embryonic stem cells, which can turn into any tissue, not the less versatile stem cells that are already being used in various procedures, including an experimental heart-strengthening surgery performed with blood stem cells...
...common, there will be little measurable differentiation between the top 75 percent of every HBS class. For those lower down on the totem pole, the very signal that they got into HBS in the first place should carry sufficient weight.HBS should make grade release optional to shore up its reputation with employers and ensure that students give the school’s academics more than lip-service. Students should be able to keep, and to advertise, what they earn. The dire consequences predicted by those who oppose the move will ultimately be offset by the fundamentals of HBS?...