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Your support makes all the difference.l IT IS a pity that you chose to follow up your excellent article "Warning: Ecstasy causes amnesia" (7 January) with "Ecstasy kills teenager at club" (14 January). This ignores the fact that there is to date no reported death caused directly by Ecstasy. How many times must it be said? Education and facts are the solution.
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l RE Inside Story: "Has he found his big idea?" (14 January).
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Who spoke with considerable flair.
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Was no more than Scotch mist
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l WHERE are the "blips" in the craniosacral system, a system not in any anatomy book ("The gentle touch", 14 January)? Massage is pleasant. It is not surprising it eases conditions such as asthma that have an important psychological overlay. There is no need to invest it with imaginary pathways to unblock. Dr Neville W Goodman
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