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...SEGT might extend life. The first is that by enhancing the women's joie de vivre, the therapy revs up the immune system, which keeps the cancer in check for longer. Some of the Thursday Girls subscribe to this theory, and science hasn't entirely discredited it. But the weight of evidence suggests it's flimsy. While depression has been shown to affect outcome in some conditions, there's no clear link with cancer. "One myth for sure is that avoiding stress and being positive has survival benefits," says Jane Turner, a Brisbane psychiatrist who treats young adults with cancer...
...grade competition. She launches into incredibly articulate diatribes—replete with sophisticated words like “caveat”—until you’re convinced she must be utilizing the power of Satan. Don’t worry: Her stilettos cannot support the weight of her bitchiness for too long. She’ll feel bad for embarrassing you and organize a final exam study group...
...only thing this compares to is when Tiger Woods used to lead the World Golf Rankings by the same distance that stood between the second-ranked player and the 200 millionth player in the world. But that was before Woods left Butch Harmon, put on some weight and married that Swedish model and former nanny. (On this note, I have a plan. We must prohibit all Swedish models from visiting or attending Harvard. Well, actually, having a quick look around campus, a ban like that might already be in place...
...mother's case, calcium supplements and weight-bearing exercises brought her bone mass back to normal within a year--proof that, as the Surgeon General says, you can do something about your bone health...
...analysis Norell and a group of American and Canadian scientists published in Nature in August. By looking at growth lines--skeletal marks, analogous to tree rings, that show how much bigger a dinosaur got from year to year--the scientists were able to estimate that T. rex packed on weight at a blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however, it would have developed the opposite problem: shedding...