WITH JOAN BORYSENKO, PhD, FOUNDER OF THE MIND-BODY CLINIC, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL It was the late 1950s and a new, experimental drug called Krebiozen was being heralded as a potential cancer cure. For one patient, however, it seemed that the drug had appeared too late to be of any benefit. The lymphoma had spread an
The thousands gathered in Chicago this past weekend to protest the NATO summit and the G8 meeting in Camp David are another sign we are in a new era of social activism. The Occupy movement is not going away. What is disappearing from the American landscape is the old passive acquiescence to an unjust status
What are we to make of Sinead O’Connor? The Irish singer who rose to fame at age 21 with her 1987 release, “The Lion and the Cobra,” has in ensuing years acquired a reputation that seems to obligate journalists to affix some pointed adjective before every mention of her name. Thus, we have the “troubled”
Growing up in a family with ties to founders of the Mormon Church, I learned at an early age a little about the church’s teachings. I read Mormon comic books for children that claimed humans in the Garden of Eden used to live to the age of 900 or so. I learned that God in
AN UTNE MAGAZINE COVER STORY I traveled to downstate Illinois recently to visit a friend and her 8-year-old daughter, Lillian. Early one morning, Lillian and I were sitting in the living room as she waited for her mother to drive her to school. Lillian asked me if I was planning to stay another night. I
MARK HARRIS 