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...patient died. All that may be necessary for the placebo effect to kick in is for one part of the brain to take in data from the world and hand that information off to another part that controls a particular bodily function. "The brain appears to be able to target the placebo effect in a variety of ways," says Newberg. There's no science proving that the intercessions of others will make you well. But it surely does no harm - and probably helps - to know that people are praying...
...reason is that Academy members are a tad older than the target audience for action-adventures, however elegantly crafted. It's not that Hollywood folk don't get these films; after all, they made 'em. It's that they don't think the grand-scale technical skill lavished on a Dark Knight or an Iron Man is as honorable as the spectacle of two guys talking--as long as one of them is Richard Nixon...
Warning that their work needed far more investigation, the researchers also raised the possibility that sarcosine could be a "therapeutic target" that might one day offer an effective treatment of the disease. In laboratory tests, they found that adding sarcosine to prostate cells caused benign cells to become cancerous and invasive. The researchers hope that drugs that stop sarcosine from working could effectively contain prostate cancer and maybe even have implications for other cancer treatments...
...cameras and alarms in workers' apartments. Zi Teng also organizes self-help groups in basic self-defense skills. But Elaine Lam, Zi Teng's director, argues such measures might be less necessary if prostitution were completely legalized. Sex workers currently are stigmatized by society, which can make them a target for violent crimes, Lam says. "We have many cases where sex workers say they open their door for a client and they are attacked and stabbed because they are seen as bad people in society," she says. "We need whole legal reform, where sex work is decriminalized and treated...
...Nelson says these talks, aimed at winning the backing of a filibuster-proof majority of at least 60 senators, have been the most complex he's engaged in. "The Gang of 14 was focused on a particular target, and that was to avoid the nuclear option," Nelson said in an interview with TIME. "Here, not everybody is supportive of a stimulus package to begin with, and all of us have questions about the amount and what's in the package. When that's the case, the number of differing opinions that you have multiplies...