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Antithesis, or "Anti-thesis," is everything I do to avoid doing my thesis. My antithetical list includes, but is in no way limited to: watching "Spinal Tap" again, buying soap, shopping classes, revising my resume, running, writing long letters to people I am no longer friends with, watching "Spinal Tap" again, doing recommended reading for classes, revising my bibliography, writing papers for other classes and xeroxing articles I will never read...
...ACOG also announced plans to support a bid by Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta for the Paralympic Games in 1996. The ACOG will provide $5 million in cash and another $5 million in services to support the event...
...expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning, sprains and simple diaper rash. And, of course, the patient who needs spinal disc surgery, No. 588 on the list, may be out of luck...
...fairly rigorous studies have shown their manipulations of the spine to be effective in relieving lower-back pain. Orthopedic surgeons have even been known to refer patients to back crackers, and some 30 U.S. hospitals have chiropractors on staff. Because almost every nerve in the body runs through the spinal cord, chiropractors maintain that they can treat all manner of ills by "adjusting" the vertebrae. However, beyond the lower back, there is no proof -- aside from reams of anecdotal testimony -- that the method works...
...that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine, which...