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The placebo effect--the expectation that about 35% of patients will show improvement if they are given any kind of treatment at all, even a sugar pill--is one of the givens of modern medicine and, for true believers, the best evidence of the healing power of mind over body...
With the possible exception of one: United Airlines. Of all the major carriers, this summer had to be better for the Chicago-based airline than 2000. Last year United, then the country's largest airline, suffered with historically high delays and cancellations largely because the pilots and the airline's...
With the possible exception of the electric nose- and ear-hair clippers, there is no device in my gadget-heavy house more consistently and surprisingly good at its job than the TiVo box. As you really should know by now, TiVo is the personal video recorder (PVR) that learns the...
IRAQ Rejects U.N. Plan Baghdad threatened to halt oil supplies to Jordan and Turkey if they agreed to a U.N. plan to replace sanctions on Iraq with tighter border controls. A British-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to be debated this week proposes the end of all sanctions on exports...
It wasn't supposed to be this way. After the N.A.A.C.P. and affiliated groups attacked the lack of diversity on TV and threatened boycotts in 1999, the networks recast series, appointed diversity czars and instituted minority recruitment and training programs. Last year, with the media and activists looking over the...