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...patient and the therapist talked but no massage was given, and another group received a 20-minute back massage for up to five days following their operations. The massage group, the study found, reported markedly less intense and less unpleasant pain and less anxiety than patients who got standard pain medication or individual attention but no massage. Dr. Daniel Hinshaw, a surgeon in the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and one of the study's co-authors, says that when asked a day after surgery, some patients reported that massage delivered about as much pain relief as a dose from...
...conservationists say, a policy to fish Europe out of business. "Mocking scientific advice has become standard practice in the decisions made by the European fisheries ministers," says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Fisheries Policy Officer Carol Phua...
...question isn't what Ringo did post-Beatles. The question is what any of the Beatles did post-Beatles," says Geldof. (Geldof's assessment matches the broad consensus: none of them individually matched the Beatles' stratospheric standard.) One thing Ringo won't do is join Geldof in using his celebrity status to campaign for any causes. That, says Ringo firmly, was Lennon's province. Ringo believes in leading by example or, as he says of his vegetarianism, "I am the campaign...
...It’s only when you come out of the community that you realize there are many different varieties [of English]. In that particular context, if they’re in that position, they have a much greater responsibility. To just say that it’s not standard English—that’s not really helpful. 12.FM: Your husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, is also an esteemed race sociologist. Do you consider yourselves the power couple of Af-Am studies? MM: We’re a couple, we’re a very happy couple but?...
...pleas from rich, “enlightened” environmentalists to frighten average Americans to trade in their SUVs for a Prius. Change won’t come from a government so beholden to corporate pressure that it’s “new” automotive efficiency standards still lag far behind those of most of the rest of the developed world.Barring a quantum leap forward in energy efficiency, the improvements necessary to significantly shrink the country’s carbon footprint would involve fundamental adjustments in how we lead our lives. So these conscientious entrepreneurs took...