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...puzzling. The most useful applications of the test are to figure out grade point averages and to determine who blew the curve on a mid-term. I don't think increasing competition in this already too-intense place is responsible. People are a lot nicer when they don't care about grades because they can't figure them...
...this candidate for Governor of Massachusetts cashes a $486 welfare check every month. Dorothy Stevens, 48, a single mother of four who has spent most of her life on welfare, announced her bid for the Democratic nomination last week. Her platform: a $10-an-hour minimum wage, universal child care and higher payments for families on public assistance...
Even some conservative bastions of the medical establishment have become interested in mind-body therapies as an adjunct to conventional care. The American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs gingerly explored this heretofore off-limits topic at a meeting last week. Leading medical schools, such as those at Harvard and UCLA, are including mind-body research in their course offerings...
Some doctors urge patients to supplement routine medical care with mind- enhancing therapies. Last year for the first time more of the patients at the New England Deaconess Hospital's Mind-Body Clinic had been referred there by doctors than by friends and family. At the clinic, patients learn in groups how to achieve Dr. Herbert Benson's relaxation response, a physical state of deep rest. Nearly 80% of hypertension patients lower their blood pressure and require less medication; cancer patients report less nausea during chemotherapy. "Does it prolong life?" asks Dr. Benson. "We don't know. Some people promise...
Peterson said the Medical School's program is likely to discuss ethical questions surrounding the AIDS epidemic, ending medical care in terminal cases, malpractice and involuntary commitment...