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Child prostitution gets the treatment it deserves
Pimps and johns, beware: Prosecutors just got a formidable new weapon in the fight against child prostitution.

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Let’s be honest about placebo
Rather than dismissing treatments that use placebo as hocus pocus, we should learn what we can from this powerful effect Though it’s rarely treated as a religious issue, the alternative medicine debate has a lot in common with the God versus science wrangle. Just as religious belief is scoffed at by atheists, so “traditional healer” services, while providing comfort and relief for many, are …

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U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-15th District) joined Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dearborn Mayor John O’Reilly at a seniors’ forum last Friday in Dearborn.

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