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...latest book, Timeless Healing (Scribner; $24), Benson moves beyond the purely pragmatic use of meditation into the realm of spirituality. He ventures to say humans are actually engineered for religious faith. Benson bases this contention on his work with a subgroup of patients who report that they sense a closeness to God while meditating. In a five-year study of patients using meditation to battle chronic illnesses, Benson found that those who claim to feel the intimate presence of a higher power had better health and more rapid recoveries...
Professor of Chemistry Gregory L. Verdine said the name change reflects the increase in cooperation between the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. The newly created Chemical Biology subgroup includes faculty from both departments...
...chart on page 3 of yesterday's paper was in error. Children in subgroup D of the 1962 experiment at the Wrentham State School were given 1,000, not 100, micrograms of radioactive iodine...
What causes a human being to light fire to the dwellings, hopes and dreams of his fellows? According to Ken Fineman, associate clinical professor of medical psychology at the University of California at Irvine, who advises the Orange County fire department, 60% of arsonists fall into a "curiosity" subgroup including children or teenagers. Of the remaining 40%, some burn down buildings in retaliation for what they perceive as injustice; others are sexually excited by fires and may travel with police-band radios to catch the latest action. Few, according to Fineman, want to harm people. Arsonists usually...
When the movement peaked in England in the 1970s, "skinhead" was more a punk style statement than a racial stance; "Nazi" skins were just a nasty subgroup, devoted to the bullying of immigrants. Both strains crossed the Atlantic, but in the late '80s, propelled in part by youthful embitterment at the recession economy, the Nazi versions of the skinhead strutted through such cultural crossroads as San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. They attracted immediate attention for their coiffure, dedication to British Oi! music, black Doc Martens boots and a ferocious appetite for violence -- against blacks, gays and Jews. Sometimes the fury...