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Alternative-medicine proponent Dr. Andrew Weil recommends breath work (breathing deeply, slowly, quietly) as the most powerful method he knows to reduce anxiety. I agree. I am a clinical psychologist who had practiced for 29 years before I ever encountered breath work. For the 25 years since then, I have limited my practice to teaching breathing exercises to those who come to me with psychological problems. In just a few breathing sessions, people can easily and comfortably transform their lives and learn a technique they can use to let go of negative feelings so they truly heal. Breath work does...
...most important advances in science and medicine is one of the things TIME does best, and these annual special issues have become a showcase for our prizewinning science staff. They are also an opportunity to tap the expertise of outside writers we admire. In this issue: Dr. Andrew Weil, writing about alternative treatments for anxiety, depression and other disorders; M.I.T. psychology professor Steven Pinker on the intricate relationship between genes and behavior; Dr. Mehmet Oz on how he uses meditation to speed the recovery of heart-transplant patients at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. We also...
...station plays 10 songs, and 10 people are listening, it must multiply the fee by 100,” said Adam I. Cohen, a partner in Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, the law firm that represented webcasters in a trial against record companies to determine rates...
...improve their corporate practices - often looking to the U.S. as a model. Notions such as creating shareholder value or making a company's affairs more transparent and directors more accountable have crossed the Atlantic and been codified. According to a study earlier this year by the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, there were just 10 codes of corporate governance in E.U. nations in 1997, six of which were issued in Britain. By the beginning of this year there were 35. National practices and legislation still vary widely, however. Among the biggest differences: firms in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria...
...layered defenses, in part by showing that church officials responsible for supervising wayward priests also effectively control the corporations and entities that own church property. In a Miami case, the archdiocese claimed that it had no control over a parish school where a teacher molested a student. But attorney Weil showed that the diocese controlled not only curriculum and teacher appointments but also scheduling for the school conference rooms. The church settled before the case went to trial. "This is akin to a private getting caught and the general saying, 'He doesn't work for me,'" says Weil. "They...