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...psychoanalysis compete with that? Freud's methods may be intellectually exciting, but they're slow and largely unproven. A course of cognitive therapy can take as little as six to eight sessions to finish; a course of analysis often takes five to 10 years. Even its supporters admit there are few clinical studies to show that psychoanalysis actually works. After all, they argue, the ultimate goal of psychoanalysis is deeper self-understanding, and how can you demonstrate that with a study...
Iraq, Iran and North Korea were somewhat improbably lumped together by President Bush last February as an "Axis of Evil." This week, however, all three seemed to pop up and taunt America with threats, proven or unproven, of weapons of mass destruction...
...Whether the three suspects truly had terrorist ties is unproven; it's not even clear whether they had the ability to get such large quantities of drugs. What is clear is that America's war on terrorism has spread inexorably as the threats appear to multiply...
...hours ago we had nothing: no face, no name to pin onto the murderous rampage of the past three weeks. And now we have two names, two faces to attach to our suspicions: a father figure, and, unbelievably, a 17-year-old boy. For their roles, as yet unproven, in the sniper killings, John Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad are our Persons of the Week...
...have the spend-thrift Republicans dumped over $250 million into unproven abstinence-only programs over the past five years? Because they wanted to reward the religious and right-wing groups that brought them to power. Nearly every group that receives abstinence funding is either faith-based or staunchly conservative, and has campaigned for the Republican party during the past few elections. In addition, many pro-life groups have begun to market themselves as providers of abstinence education to start receiving taxpayers’ money. Abstinence funding is simply another way to channel federal funds to reactionary groups...