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...Rather, he combines the sense of entitlement afforded by a childhood of extreme wealth with the moral certitude gained by his decision not to merely live off--or, for that matter, maximize--that wealth. Instead, Dean got a medical degree, which gave him confidence, a comfort in his own skin. In that sense--and in some others--Dean, who has been compared so often to George McGovern and Ralph Nader, is far more like ... George W. Bush...
...CESARE GALLI, announcing the birth of the first cloned horse, in Italy. A mare's skin cell was used to fertilize one of her own eggs, from which genetic material had been removed. The mare then carried her own clone to term...
...latest shows. I was there this year during an unseasonably warm spell. The English are so unused to balmy weather that, when the sun takes a robust turn, they rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures in the shows I saw over there, my face should have been...
...Herbert Benson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, afraid of looking too flaky, waited until late at night to sneak 36 transcendental meditators into his lab to measure their heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and rectal temperature. He found that when they meditated, they used 17% less oxygen, lowered their heart rates by three beats a minute and increased their theta brain waves--the ones that appear right before sleep--without slipping into the brain-wave pattern of actual sleep. In his 1970s best seller, The Relaxation Response, Benson, who founded the Mind/Body Medical Institute, argued that...
Lately Kabat-Zinn has been studying a group of patients with psoriasis, an incurable skin disease that is often treated by asking patients to go to a hospital, put goggles on and stand naked in a hot, loud ultraviolet light box. Apparently, many people find this stressful. So Kabat-Zinn randomly picked half the patients and taught them to meditate in order to reduce their stress levels in the light box. In two experiments, the meditators' skin cleared up at four times the rate of the nonmeditators. In another study, conducted with Wisconsin's Richard Davidson, Kabat-Zinn gave...