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...There were even models of the very commuter trains hardest hit by the strike, so the crowds at the show could at least admire the handsome trains they couldn't take to work. No matter. "Even in the strikes, people are happy to go to this exhibition," said Gad Weil, one of the organizers. "The adventure of rail continues in this society. People expect a lot from trains." Europe has nurtured idealized visions of railroads ever since the British engineer George Stephenson drove a steam engine from Stockton to Darlington - the world's first public railroad - in 1825. In theory...
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...