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When a new president comes into office in the U.S., he invariably promises his Cabinet lots of responsibility and respect, but everyone knows the truth--the President will thoroughly dominate the Administration, and he will treat most of his Cabinet Secretaries like slightly dim distant cousins. In Israel matters have always been different. Ministers there control powerful baronies, and they push hard on the Prime Minister, as do party elders and testy coalition partners. Now Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced his Cabinet last week, is trying to break the old traditions, consolidate power in his own hands and become Israel...
...Frey, the chance to supervise the overall look of this issue was a special treat. "So much of the time we're working with death and disaster. It was really fun to do something upbeat," she muses. Frey could also relate to many of the athletes we profiled. She swims, bicycles, plays tennis and runs; a few years ago, she completed the New York Marathon in under four hours. In fact, she says, "putting this issue together was a little like running a marathon." The major difference is that marathoners are in pain for weeks afterward. After this issue...
...best-selling "owners' guides" to late-20th century souls. Moore does not prescribe cures but has much to say about illness. "We live in a world of fate and destiny and mystery," he writes. "Of course illness affects our entire being. It is a shame that medicine still treats illness as physical." Then there are those who offer old, if exotic, solutions straight up: the Tai Chi masters, the Tibetan sages and the modern shamans who treat illness with auras and crystals...
...Fish oil may be effective to treat CROHN'S DISEASE, the chronic inflammatory-bowel condition. More than half of patients in remission from the disease were spared a relapse by taking fish-oil capsules. They used a new slow-release form that lessened the oil's typical side effects, such as fishy body odor...
Roosevelt's optimism about medical research seems, in retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five...