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First described in the medical literature in the 1780s, the placebo effect can work all manner of curative magic against all manner of ills. Give a patient a sugar pill but call it an analgesic, and pain may actually go away. Parkinson's disease patients who underwent a sham surgery that they were told would boost the low dopamine levels responsible for their symptoms actually experienced a dopamine bump. Newberg describes a cancer patient whose tumors shrank when he was given an experimental drug, grew back when he learned that the drug was ineffective in other patients and shrank again...
...This job is really plan B: I still haven’t found my sugar daddy...
...Anasazi's weekend "Children's Crafty Mac & Cheese" package starts off with a family pottery class to create a personalized dinner plate. On Saturday afternoon, kids get a lesson with the Inn's chef, who teaches them how to cook their own mac and cheese and sugar cookies. At dinnertime kids get served, you guessed it, mac and cheese on their custom-made plates, and at night, their sugar cookies will be waiting by their bed with a glass of milk. Rates begin at $329 for two nights. Through Sept. 1. 113 Washington Avenue...
...Either that or David Bowie. It could go either way.Eight in the BoxBy Raffi YessayanThe book focuses on a handsome, intelligent, witty college student who falls victim to a diabolical price gouging scheme. After years of paying the reasonable rate of 85 cents for his two-packs of brown sugar Pop Tarts, he one day discovers that the vending machine deities have betrayed this long-standing tradition, raising the fee to an outrageous price of one American dollar. Our hero falls to his knees in front of the behemoth nutrient dispenser, crying and salivating as his desired snack taunts...
...hardly unusual to see children sleeping in cemeteries, is the pomp on display at the 97-year-old Manila Hotel, a 10-minute stroll toward Manila Bay. In the third Rosales novel, My Brother, My Executioner, set just after World War II, the head of "the country's leading sugar family" Eduardo Dantes rents two floors to lodge the European royalty and opera singers he flies in for a party. Luis Asperri, the protagonist, is a privileged would-be poet who lives near the hotel in Ermita - at the time one of Manila's most exclusive districts. From his Spanish...