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...trouble with people who set their houses on fire is that they affect not only everyone living in the house but the neighbors as well. The house that was once the pride of the village is suddenly the blight, and one wants it either flattened or restored to its former glory. If it merely continues to stand where it is, it creates a perpetual Halloween and haunts the whole town...
...well. In a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month, researchers found abnormal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain, in women who had been free of bulimia for at least a year. That may help explain why drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, which affect serotonin, have allowed a lot of bulimics to stop bingeing. Unfortunately, the pills don't work as well for anorexia. Nor do they offer a simple one-stop cure. Health-care workers must re-educate their patients in how to eat and think about food...
Nasty divorces are increasingly commonplace, and there is no doubt that their affect on children is profound. So why do some of those children go on to carve themselves up while others do not? Strong hardly mentions cases like these. She does link self-mutilation to eating disorders, however, which clearly occur among people with loving and intact families...
Focusing on undergraduate education, Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings announced a plan last week that will affect Cornell undergraduates financially, residentially and academically...
Voters have the chance to directly affect Commonwealth policy by voting on four ballot initiatives, in the form of amendments to Massachusetts's Constitution...