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...early start to the U.S. presidential campaign: I am a U.S. citizen, and I propose that there be no campaigning until May 2008. The parties should hold their primary elections in June and their conventions in August and September, leaving September and October to finish campaigning and debating. Ah, yes, and let's cap campaign spending. Stephen C. Schulte Hermée, Belgium...
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...There are, unfortunately, a lot more Charlenes than Jacobs in our area. People like them teach something important: pain is a special case of the mind/body problem. Ask many "experts" in pain management. Was Charlene in pain? Yes. Was Jacob? No. Why? Because these practitioners hold that pain is only what the patient reports. In a simple way it's impossible to disagree with them...
...responds physically to noxious stimuli. But the non-physical mind is yet the only realm in which the bad experience of suffering exists. Mind and brain are mysteriously related. Lobotomized or drug-loaded patients can still answer questions. Stick one with a big needle and ask: does it hurt? Yes, it does, doctor. You can get him to report a VAS number. They might even withdraw from the needle. But there is no grimace, no groan. They certainly feel pain - but they don't care. And they don't need pain medicine...
...Yes, devoted teachers have long been underappreciated, underpaid, and only rarely tenured. That the most recent Task Force’s report highlights ways in which a middle ground between excellence in research and commitment to instruction might be achieved is to be applauded...