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...ordinary folks, biofeedback can be a useful tool in treating dozens of ailments, from asthma to epilepsy, chronic pain to drug addiction. It is perhaps the single most effective treatment for Raynaud's disease, a condition mainly afflicting women, in which the fingers turn white, cold and painful when they are exposed to cold. A series of biofeedback sessions trains sufferers to improve circulation in their hands. Many insurers now cover biofeedback, and even some old-line hospitals offer the therapy...
...book is not all about destruction--although his dining room has been suffering this stage wall-banging for two years now. ("It becomes invisible after a while," Owen explained in an interview). The Walls Around Us is also about discovery. Owen introduces the reader to every power tool and house building material, from his favorite electric miter saw to roof shingles and shakes, and also to many people--from a hardcore hardware man to the ghosts harbored inside his own house's walls. When Owen was stripping the "crazy wallpaper" from his daughter's bedroom, he discovered ancient tabloids...
...interactive multimedia will succeed, at least at some level, ! because for certain purposes it makes good sense. In the business world, it is already being embraced as a tool to train workers in such complex skills as aircraft maintenance and computer repair. But multimedia still lacks what computer companies call the "killer application," a program like the electronic spreadsheet or the word processor that is so compelling that consumers will buy a new device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays...
...spectroscopy is a means of determining the structure of molecules in solutions and investigating their motion. It has, according to Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, "become a standard instrumental measuring tool within chemistry, thanks to Ernst's developments...
...TIME for College. Last week a separate teacher's guide went out for the first time to several hundred colleges. The purpose of this program is to help teachers develop the writing ability of their students. Says Alexander Sareyan, our associate director of consumer marketing: "TIME is an excellent tool for teaching writing and communications." These efforts are a way for us to share the excitement and skills of our profession, so there's a satisfaction there for us as well...