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...with epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease. "Before, patients got shipped around from doctor to doctor until eventually they wound up at a psychologist," says Dr. Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. Now their headaches are seen as the result of wayward circuits and molecules, not personality disorders...
...year career has scripted such weepies as The Sterile Cuckoo, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Bobby Deerfield, Julia, Ordinary People, Dominick and Eugene, White Palace, Anywhere But Here and Unfaithful. The rules for Spider-Man 3 are closer to the ones for those wayward domestic romances than to action-movie guidelines. Except for one thing: the love and friendship drama is about...
...Wayward Regime Joe Klein says it all about Bush and his arrogant, incompetent and cynical Administration [April 16]. It's a wonder how the U.S. Congress has not made a move to impeach him for his sins against the American people. There seems to be a double standard in how they impeached Bill Clinton for his sexual pecadillo, which resulted in not one death, while Bush, whose lies sent over 3,000 Americans to their graves and imperiled the peace and stability of the world, remains free from the threat of impeachment. How can Congress let his many impeachable offenses...
...goal, after all, of the War on Cancer promoted by President Richard Nixon in 1971. But given the enormous complexity and variety of malignancies and the ways they can evolve and migrate in the body, an all-embracing cure is a naive hope. Instead, cancer doctors now appreciate that wayward cells may not necessarily have to be destroyed, just corralled and contained in a safe and tolerable way, often with drugs that are taken for the rest of the patient's life. "There was a mind shift that happened in the 1980s," says Dr. John Glaspy, professor of medicine...
...sometimes at the expense of the furniture. The members of BachSoc clearly took pride in their self-reliant nature. Responding enthusiastically to Demirjian’s emotional and effective conducting, the musicians seemed to fill the hall with a confidence in their unbounded potential as undergraduates. Not even a wayward chair, accidentally pushed off the stage to amused applause, could dampen their spirits. While this excitement, at its best, translated into heartfelt music, it also led to sonic imbalances and an occasional lack of polish. Such problems were evident from the concert’s first selection, Beethoven?...