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Another driving force in the U.S. is the new "demographic imperative." With a rapidly aging population, America has moved its medical focus from treating acute illness to caring for chronic maladies like heart disease and cancer -- a shift that has sent health-care costs skyward. "There's a growing appreciation of the need to find the most economical way to treat and prevent chronic disease," notes Dr. Charles Butterworth Jr. of the University of Alabama. "Food and vitamins are not that expensive." Calculates Tufts' Blumberg: "We could save billions of dollars if we could delay the onset of - chronic diseases...
...forget that tie if it's Eliot, keep your pajamas on if it's Adams and start hailing a cab if it's Currier. Treat yourself. You'll be walking a hell of a lot for the next three years...
Though Levine also refers to specific men throughout the book, most of her analysis centers on generalized male types, presented in terms of how they treat women. Levine detects the origins of feminist consciousness in repeated interactions with these male types. The "collection of women's negative and ambivalent stereotypes of men" place men into the broad categories of Infant, Betrayer and Beast. Subclassifications include, among others, Bumblers, Seducers and Pricks...
...board alleged that she used unconventionalmethods to treat Lozano--that she aided his beliefthat she was his "mom," and that she wrote"explicit fantasies that may have related...
Rather than treat a person whose ideas make us uncomfortable or confused as an individual, it's easy to view him as subscribing to an offensive ideology that can be combatted through recourse to a group with in a stake in combatting...