One thousand more troops in the South are going to win all the hearts and minds of those Afghanistans wavering. Does anybody really believe this?

Manley dug this 1000 figure out of thin air. Harper latched onto it, and lo and behold the public are now to believe we will be saved.

Get real.

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The Body Electric's New Look Why shock therapy deserves its mini ...

The history of electric shock therapy would seem to lend itself to a rather straightforward tale of last-ditch, gruesome treatment of mental illness. After all, we've all seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

But in their new book Shock Therapy, Edward Shorter and David Healy say this version is almost entirely inaccurate. Shorter is a historian who has written extensively on psychiatry, and Healy is a psychiatrist who has been highly critical of the marketing of psychopharmacological drugs. They believe that electroconvulsive therapy is incredibly effective. And yet for decades, a severely depressed patient—even one on the brink of suicide—might not have been offered the therapy, or if her doctors had proposed it, she or her family might well have declined it. In explaining why, the authors demonstrate that though we may assume medical treatments get adopted or rejected based on objective statistics, in fact data are often misinterpreted and manipulated by outside influences that end up overpowering them.

Much ado about next to nothing

She thought the skin of her face was ever less taut, more wrinkled. She remembered not looking old, not being old, not feeling so cold. She remembered a child's laughter. She started when the pounding returned. She smiled at him. She put her hand to the window as if to reach him, to touch his head. She turned to the assistant and walked with him back through the metal doors to the nurses station. The assistant retrieved her bags and handed them to her. These are for you, she said. Merry Christmas, and thank you for your care. She picked into the bag, handing the nurse and the assistant small, wrapped gifts. She handed the nurse the bag. The other gifts are marked for patients and staff. Please see to them? The two bigger packages are for him. She nodded toward the banging. Boxing gloves.

France hints it will offer Canada troop support

One thousand more troops in the South are going to win all the hearts and minds of those Afghanistans wavering. Does anybody really believe this?

Manley dug this 1000 figure out of thin air. Harper latched onto it, and lo and behold the public are now to believe we will be saved.

Get real.

Durgan. Posted 08/02/08 at 5:55 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .

The Body Electric's New Look Why shock therapy deserves its mini ...

The history of electric shock therapy would seem to lend itself to a rather straightforward tale of last-ditch, gruesome treatment of mental illness. After all, we've all seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

But in their new book Shock Therapy, Edward Shorter and David Healy say this version is almost entirely inaccurate. Shorter is a historian who has written extensively on psychiatry, and Healy is a psychiatrist who has been highly critical of the marketing of psychopharmacological drugs. They believe that electroconvulsive therapy is incredibly effective. And yet for decades, a severely depressed patient—even one on the brink of suicide—might not have been offered the therapy, or if her doctors had proposed it, she or her family might well have declined it. In explaining why, the authors demonstrate that though we may assume medical treatments get adopted or rejected based on objective statistics, in fact data are often misinterpreted and manipulated by outside influences that end up overpowering them.

Much ado about next to nothing

She thought the skin of her face was ever less taut, more wrinkled. She remembered not looking old, not being old, not feeling so cold. She remembered a child's laughter. She started when the pounding returned. She smiled at him. She put her hand to the window as if to reach him, to touch his head. She turned to the assistant and walked with him back through the metal doors to the nurses station. The assistant retrieved her bags and handed them to her. These are for you, she said. Merry Christmas, and thank you for your care. She picked into the bag, handing the nurse and the assistant small, wrapped gifts. She handed the nurse the bag. The other gifts are marked for patients and staff. Please see to them? The two bigger packages are for him. She nodded toward the banging. Boxing gloves.