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...gains, Merkel cautioned that "tough working weeks lie ahead of us." It will take more than such warnings, though, to puncture the bubble of good humor enveloping many of her compatriots. Germany was dubbed the land of smiles on the cover of a recent issue of German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Some 85% of respondents in a poll for the magazine anticipated that 2006 would be a "good year." The number of Germans who feel their government can improve their lives has risen fourfold in the past six months, consumer confidence is at its highest in four years, and the business...
...findings have fostered interest in the U.S., where doctors are using hypnosis for procedures in which sedation is inappropriate or for patients who are allergic to anesthetics. Dr. David Spiegel, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, hypnotizes Parkinson's sufferers during the implantation of deep-brain electrodes--a process that requires tremulous patients to remain conscious and calm. He has also coaxed children into imagining that a balloon tied to their wrist will fly them to their favorite places, a hypnotic technique that has lessened anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing bladder catheterizations...
...even the most enthusiastic proponents of hypnosedation don't suggest that it replace anesthesia entirely. For one thing, not everybody can be hypnotized. Some 60% of patients are hypnotizable to some degree, Spiegel says; an additional 15%, highly so. The rest seem to be unresponsive. Moreover, many patients are fully sedated before surgery not because the surgeon requires it but because they choose to be. "People don't want to feel or hear anything. They want to be out," says Schulz-Stübner. "That's what you hear most of the time...
This poll was conducted for TIME, ABC News, the BBC, NHK and Der Spiegel by Oxford Research International. Interviews were conducted in person from Oct. 8 to Nov. 13, in Arabic and Kurdish, among a random national sample of 1,711 Iraqis age 15 and older. Margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points...
DIED. Sam Spiegel, 84, independent Hollywood producer of the fast-talking, cigar-chomping mold, whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what...