The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.

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Bad news for the makers of sleeping pills: A new report in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association says that a six-week course of psychological therapy may be more effective for insomnia than taking drugs.

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Anastacia, who had the surgery on 10 February, will begin a six-week course of radiation therapy in the coming weeks.

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So in two to three weeks, when you get the next course of therapy, you have a fitter pool of cancer cells floating around.

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