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...Vikki Stark thought she had the perfect marriage. She and her loving husband of 21 years seemed unbreakable. Stark, a family therapist, had nursed her husband through a harrowing liver transplant, and he had patiently encouraged her as she wrote her first book. Then, one day in 2006, returning from a three-week book tour, Stark told her husband she had picked up fish for dinner. He responded, "It's over...
...ailing pets. In the past decade, the number of vets who completed a 156-hr. training course given by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) has quadrupled. IVAS also recently added courses in herbal and food therapy, and Tui Na, a manipulative treatment like chiropractic. According to IVAS spokeswoman Vikki Weber, 10% to 20% of the society's trainees end up quitting Western medicine altogether. "There are other possibilities out there besides pills or a doctor's knife," says Mitchener, a veterinary oncologist who incorporated alternative treatments into her practice four years...
...median home price fell 1% from a year earlier. That's the first decline in a decade. "$579,000--Getting Desperate!" reads an ad posted on Craigslist in the metro area. "There are three times as many houses on the market as there were a year ago," says Vikki Kuick, a broker who placed...
...also help.” Diane M. Brockmeyer, a primary-care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said she attended the event out of an interest “in how the medical community can respond to disaster.” An Extension School student studying architecture, Vikki Lew, praised Summers for his references to “human and social capital,” calling the issue “something that is often ignored...
...friends. Previously outgoing, she became increasingly withdrawn and diffident as she struggled with feelings of guilt and confusion. Steered toward Barrett by the family's G.P., Maddison thrived in the friends program. One afternoon last week she sat doing her homework at a desk at Pathways, where her mother, Vikki, works at the front desk. Now 11, Maddison explained how she'd just auditioned at a big dance school. It had been nerve-racking, she said, having to perform ballet and a jazz routine in front of the examiners and other kids; she'd even had to sing Happy Birthday...