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...even today, when the worst pain is usually a headache after patients awaken, some say they are coerced into electroshock and lied to about it. "The doctor told my family it was an absolute cure for depression," says Juli Lawrence, who underwent electroshock in 1994. But the following week she attempted suicide. She says her doctor also failed to warn her about the memory loss usually associated with electroshock, which can range from forgetting where you parked your car to forgetting that you own a car at all. The memory loss is often temporary, but not always. (A 1999 Surgeon...
...Earnhardt tragedy may well cause some fans to take another hard look at the thing they love. What risks are fans willing to tolerate as spectators/abettors to an inherently dangerous sport? For some, the death of a hero of Earnhardt's magnitude will awaken disgust, or shame. There is a reason that today, gladiators do battle only in the movies...
Helsing's three, however, seemed to awaken the Crimson, which furiously charged back with a 12-0 run to cut the lead to six with under four minutes to play. Harvard sophomore center Sarah Johnson was dominant inside, leading the team with 23 points. Freshman Hana Peljto, last week's Ivy League Rookie of the Week, added 12 points and nine rebounds...
...haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never really been dead," said Bush. "It has simply been biding its time, waiting for its next chance.... If Gore gets elected, the era of big government being over is over. And so too, I fear, is our prosperity...
...have been role models for these candidates," Tumulty says. "But these women explain parts of [Gore] that you don't get any other way." Gore's mother, Pauline Gore, shaped her son's relentlessly left-lobe way of looking at the world. And his wife Tipper helped awaken his latent emotional side. "What really got me interested in doing this story was an offhand comment Tipper made in an interview I did with her three years ago," Tumulty says. "She said the discipline in [Gore's] thinking came from his mother, and it occurred to me that if you could...