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Cherkin's findings raise at least two possible explanations. Since the sham procedure used the same acupuncture points as the legitimate therapy, there may be something about the stimulation of those points, even without skin penetration, that triggers a beneficial physiological reaction in the body and the nervous system, leading to pain relief. (This may be the mechanism behind acupressure, which involves pressing certain points on the body to alter physiological processes occurring deep inside organs.) Or the patients' improvement may be due simply to a powerful placebo effect, in which the mere belief that you are receiving...
...forces a tool to retard diplomatic progress because the U.S. would have to limit its engagement with Tehran as long as Saberi was held captive. "They can use her to sabotage any opening," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution. (See pictures of the health-care system in Tehran...
...Montana law was drafted by the Montana Shooting Sports Association, which has said it will support what it is likely to be a lengthy legal fight in the federal court system to affirm or strike down the law. Plans call for the association to find a pristine individual who will manufacture and sell 20 rifles without applying for a mandatory federal dealer's license. The right to do so would be asserted in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Once a BATF response likely rejecting that claim is received, the association would seek standing...
...commander of special-operations forces in Iraq, he sent troops returning to the theater back to their original neighborhoods - a system he has suggested for general infantry soldiers in Afghanistan as head of a recent task-force review...
...into the alleged abuses in Tibet and the Muslim region of Xinjiang, he acknowledges that that would be "suicidal." In the China of the next decade and further down the road, democracy won't be nearly as important as freedom of information, the artist concludes. "We need a scientific system more than a democratic one. The Communist Party can be in power for the next 100 years, but we have to question them, investigate them ... It doesn't matter as long as we can make them bear the responsibility," he says...