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...Psychiatrist Arthur K. Shapiro of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical Center points out that the placebo effect may also be influenced by attitudes of patient and doctor toward drugs and, perhaps more important, toward each other. In fact, says Shapiro, who has collected hundreds of the "useless" nostrums over the years, patient confidence in a physician may be a kind of placebo too, increasing chances of improvement...
...Reader Bob Mauger [June 25]: If you really have to allude to World War II to talk about excessive oil waste and ask what country started that mess, I could as well ask you now what country it was that wasted a great deal of oil in a useless war more than 20 years after the one you mentioned. But it's not the past that counts, but the present and the future. And the fact is that fewer than 250 million Americans spend more than one-third of the world's oil resources...
...Deep Tunnel, as it is known, has turned into a bottomless pit. The deeper it goes, the more money it costs, and the sharper the questions about the wisdom of the venture. The excavation, which is about 10% dug, is useless unless it is finished. But it will take the next 20 years to complete and cost $11 billion. What's more, it cannot operate without an additional $1.6 billion in hook-up costs for the 150 communities involved, and they do not have the money...
Good thing: half a mile offshore MacCready spotted a sinister shape that he took to be a large shark. By the last quarter-mile, Allen said, "my legs started to get useless." He had developed painful cramps, but pedaled on. Finally, as Cap Gris-Nez loomed, he said to himself: "Doggone, I'm going to make...
...review the tutorials and notify administrators when they fail to comply with the requirments. Faculty Council members requested last week that the legislation clearly state that students would serve only on an advisory basis. As a result, Faculty members would serve as their own judges. The reforms will be useless unless the Faculty takes tutorial reform seriously and obeys its requirments...