A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES contains oversized, crisp, color pictures of our military men and women in many countries all over the globe. It is almost as though A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES is a photographic supplement to Gore Vidal's DREAMING WAR: BLOOD FOR OIL AND THE CHENEY-BUSH JUNTA, which I had just finished reading. In his book, Vidal claims that the USA is an empire. I had doubted this, but after seeing A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES, I realized that Vidal has a point.

I highly recommend this book for anyone with the need to work through forgiveness. It is written in a disarmingly simple, lightly humorous style, but the concepts it expouses are very powerful. Claiming that any hurt is like a "mini-death", the authors use Kubler-Ross's five stages of bereavement - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance - as a framework to work through the forgiving process.

At the same time, the concept of the two components of nonviolence, resisting evil but at the same time wooing the evildoer, is introduced as a creative way to foster reconciliation.

The book is religious in nature, but by no means oppressively so. It will be beneficial to persons of any or no religious persuasion. A delightful book.

I enjoyed reading this story and found myself laughing out loud often. I think we've all known a Troy in our lives. Here we get to walk with him and get his thoughts on the situations he finds himself in. Including the whirlwind his new friend Curt takes him on. All the while wondering if Curt is for real, after all, who could like the fat kid?
We all do Troy, we all do.

I recommend this story to anyone interested in a fun uplifting tale about life, music, and personal triumph. 5 stars.

It is written in an easy to read manner and is very visual in its layout. It mainly tackles the creation of ads and campaigns and traces the history and evolution of the creative process.

Strongly recommended to students and younger executives of advertising.

I also recommend Ogilvy on Advertsing which deals also with the professional aspects of agency work.

It lays a solid foundation in advertising history, marketing strategy, and copywriting. Even demonstrates how to write various types of advertising. It's no hyperbole to state that it is a whole course on copywriting fundamentals between two covers!

If you are serious about becoming a copywriter, your best move is to get this book first.

I never did like Dawn, though. I think she is a big mouth with no common sense. She blurts out to Whitney that she is Whitney's sitter and can't allow the girl to overindulge in eating sweets. Naturally Whitney is hurt to think that she has to have a hired sitter. It is a blow to her pride and is proof positive that Dawn is inconsiderate and has a big mouth.

To make another criticism of the book, are the problems I see with pages 31-58, which describe a porphyria model of etiology. Bonnye says there are 3,000+ chemicals--including perfumes-- that trigger porphyria attacks. She does not cite much evidence for this except for a paper written by Wilson. She also fails to take into account of this theory (even though she notes it), that not all MCS sufferers test positive for porphyria, even during reaction. Nor are there any controlled experiments of the theory. So the data suggest an association of MCS with abnormal porphyrin metabolism, but not a MCS etiology of such. Bonnye goes as far as to say the porphyria model is the first model on MCS, which is ridiculous.

Now on to some positive book discussion/ review. Donald Dudley, M.D., wrote a chapter that discussed the research he has performed. Dudley studied the Auditory and Visual evoked potentials of twenty patients with MCS (under Cullen's definition). Auditory and visual P300 were influenced "significantly" when the olfactory system was stimulated with chemicals that had six or fewer carbon fragments. The patients were exposed to perfume, felt tip pen, and other everyday chemicals in an everyday amount. Left and right P300 auditory were greatly decreased upon chemical exposure. Though the visual P300 was not decreased to the same degree (but decreased none the less), there was a significant change in waveform quality that caused two patients to have occipital seizures. In other words, the brain waves of MCS sufferers go haywire upon being exposed to chemicals they are sensitive to. This is not the work of psychogenic disorders. (See pg.24, summary of "MCS: Trial by Science")

Neurotoxicologist Dr. Gunnar Heuser has a chapter in which he discusses his research on brain scans before and after chemical exposure. MCS patients generally have a decreased flow of blood to the *limbic region* of the brain, which becomes further decreased upon exposure to perfumes (see pgs. 27-30)

I find chapter 7 to be both enlightening and disturbing: It discusses the fact that there are seven major studies that are used to show MCS is a psychogenic condition. In these seven studies, there were a total of 334 patients studied. However, no more than thirty-three of these patients actually had MCS. In five of the studies, none of the patients had MCS. Of the remaining two, in one study, eighteen out of forty-one had MCS, and in the other study no more than fifteen out of fifty-three had MCS. Thus, it is fair to state that the studies have nothing to do with the real MCS. (See pgs 111-130)

The conventional medical community is contradicting itself, which is one reason I've lost faith in conventional medicine.

In sum, this book is excellently written as it contains a clear presentation of useful data. I strongly recommend buying it.

This book comparing to trashy campaign published disinformation campaign sponsored by special interests ... is undisputed MASTERPIECE! WHAT ELSE ONE CAN SAY?

Only works of Claudia Miller, Mohamed Abu Donia, Marc Cullen, Grace Ziem the MDs scientists and researchers could be rated any higher!

Together with other jewels and masterpieces such as: Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes, 2nd Edition; Claudia S. Miller, Nicholas Askounes Ashford the readers can get full accounting of the magnitude of informations available today from first hand witness of the suffering.

To add to credibility to this book read scientific review by Alexandra Golub a DOD scientific review sponsored under PENTAGON and DOD programs on Gulf War illness research... demonstrates that there is clear the connection between neurological injury and MCS. Only by reading such first hand accounting and documented evidence one can get full image of the magnitude of legal deception by any and all means!

The recent findings in reference to heavy metals and specificaly mercury toxicity and neural sensitisation, as the cause of developing heavy metal allergy suported by the newest MELISA (memory lymphocyte immuno-stimulation assay) tests with the study of metal-induced neural neurotoxic sensitization tests

could beef up the splendind factual accounting by this the autor first hand of the mysery of injured by neurotoxic agents.

As far as discussed treatment it is difficult to treat what is not yet fully explored there for elimination and avoidance is what must be first considered.

The NEW emerging scientific evidence only adds credibility and supports this book. The recent findings of brain damage in Gulf War Veterans, as well as ethiology of allergy and asthma ...reported on May 18, 2000 with new evidence that the ALLERGY NERVE GROWTH FACTOR NGD was linked to NGF proteine.

"Hopkins allergy researchers took to the trail of NGF for several reasons. First, Koliatsos, who is an expert on the use of NGF in experiments to treat nerve and brain disorders, informed the allergy researchers that using NGF to treat Alzheimer's caused patients excessive pain. NGF, found naturally in the body, is a small, potent molecule that helps maintain certain nerve cells and prods other nerve cells to grow and communicate with others. "It looked like the pain syndromes we saw in these patients shared many of the same mechanisms with respiratory allergy," says Koliatsos. "

The new evidence clearly demonstrates a valid what previously was unknown missing links: "Hay fever and asthma now seem to derive from events not only in the respiratory system, but also from a nervous system that is overreacting to stimuli," says Vassilis Koliatsos, M.D., an associate professor of pathology, neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine."

God bless autor for excellent account of factual presentation of the REAL WORLD of what I will plainly call "QUACKERY and fraud in medicine".

A Must READ!

Minuses: The authors examples are a ridiculous genealogy of household pets,"Greyhound Canine" and "Tabitha Zee Feline". Their example did not allow the complexity of a real family. The animal parallel was distracting from the excellent work explaining the program. Some information and relationships which are in many family files were not covered.