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...also criticized Bush’s drug policy, which he claimed is inconsistent and unfair...
Your story "How To Heal a Hypochondriac" was unfair to many people who desperately visit doctor after doctor for some relief from their debilitating symptoms [HEALTH, Oct. 6]. When basic tests don't reveal anything, a patient is told there is nothing wrong and therefore it must be "all in your head." After doing my own research on the Internet, I learned that my problem has a name, fibromyalgia. Now that I am receiving proper treatment, I am doing better. True hypochondria must certainly be a problem, but as long as doctors label a patient a hypochondriac before ruling...
...charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives it an unfair advantage with which to expand into their territory. "The BBC is probably under more hostile attack than it ever has been in its history," says Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster...
...tough selling job. - By Tadeusz L. Kucharski and Andrew Purvis Agreeing To Disagree A U.S. judge declared a mistrial in the case against former Crédit Suisse First Boston banker Frank Quattrone. Jurors failed to reach a verdict on charges that he interfered with federal investigations into alleged unfair allocations of shares to clients in 2000. Quattrone could face a second trial...
Other Adams House residents, though, said they did not think that the council’s decision was unfair...