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Pain psychologists like Symreng play a vital role at most pain-management centers, though patients are often reluctant to consult them. "Patients hate to hear you offer them mind therapy, because they feel what you're doing is telling them they have a mental illness and you don't really believe they have a physical problem," says Dr. Scott Fishman, an anesthesiologist, internist and psychiatrist who is chief of pain medicine at U.C. Davis. But the mind is always actively involved in pain, especially in chronic cases. "We know that when you image the brain, the areas that light...
Just as a Shakespearean actor can make iambic pentameter sound natural, so McShane brings Milch's profane yet lofty dialogue to life. And he makes Swearengen the embodiment of the feral, vital greed that fueled a nation's growth. His character is loathsome but, McShane notes, also "the galvanizing force behind what the camp would become--a legitimate place for people to live." Civilization may be closing in on Al Swearengen's mining town, but his rich character offers Ian McShane plenty of gold yet to strike. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...traced back to a pair of reforms that were made in the 1990s and hailed at the time as great innovations. Responding to complaints from AIDS activists and the pharmaceutical industry that drug approval was taking too long, the agency in 1992 announced a "fast track" for vital medications to treat life-threatening diseases. Although they would not be subjected to lengthy safety trials, fast-tracked drugs were supposed to be carefully monitored by their manufacturers after release to the public for any unexpected side effects. It was a compromise that made sense because problems are more likely to surface...
...hour workweeks the only model of success? Isn't there a better way that doesn't leave women who want children--and men who want to see their children--with all-or-nothing propositions? This is not a new problem. The era of World War II, when women were vital to war production, was the first time married women outnumbered single women in the American workplace. It was also one of the first times the issue of child care for working women became part of the public debate. FORTUNE magazine, in 1943, recognized the double duty that women were being...
More important than the procedural flaws in Wegner’s lottery, however, is the conflict between his and the community’s values. Harvard institutes shopping period at the start of each semester in order to give students the rare and vital opportunity to develop their academic interests. It is the only time that the uninhibited student, not yet bogged down by pressing deadlines and class responsibilities, is encouraged to experiment with new classes. Rather than promote intellectual inquiry, Wegner’s lottery contradicted the spirit of shopping period, undermining the enriching academic experience it is meant...