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Lance Armstrong reignited the accessories-with-a-message trend in 2004 with the $1 yellow LiveStrong bracelet. The rubbery adornment has become this decade's AIDS ribbon and can indicate support for causes from bipolar disorder to Darfur. At HeroBracelets.org started in 2004--friends and family can honor servicemen from World War II to Iraq with personalized metallic bracelets. President Bush has received two from military moms. McCain got his at a New Hampshire campaign stop; Obama's came from Wisconsin. More than 50,000 bracelets have been sold so far, and since the debate, HeroBracelets founder Chris Greta says...
...changed, as did the international community's policy of equating India and Pakistan as nuclear weapons states. As Indian and U.S. officials have repeatedly pointed out, the deal has "de-hyphenated" India from Pakistan. "For decades India has chafed at the world's tendency to lock India into a bipolar South Asian framework with Pakistan," says Joshi. "Now, decisively, the rules have been changed for India, and pointedly not for Pakistan." The deal also has a bearing on the regional balance of power, making clear the U.S.'s proclivity to India and sending a signal to Beijing that...
...account for the adolescent behaviors so familiar to parents: emotional outbursts, reckless risk taking and rule breaking, and the impassioned pursuit of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Some experts believe the structural changes seen at adolescence may explain the timing of such major mental illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These diseases typically begin in adolescence and contribute to the high rate of teen suicide. Increasingly, the wild conduct once blamed on "raging hormones" is being seen as the by-product of two factors: a surfeit of hormones, yes, but also a paucity of the cognitive controls needed...
...Swedish study, published Sept. 1 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers found that the risk of developing bipolar disorder began to increase in children born to fathers around age 40. The highest risk, however, occurred in men age 55 and older; their offspring were 37% more likely to develop the disorder than children born to men in their 20s. Children of older men were also twice as likely to develop early-onset disease - before age 20 - which studies suggest has a strong genetic component...
...gifts from the Broads, the institute has received one other large gift: a $100 million donation in March 2007 from the Stanley Medical Research Institute to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, a move that backers said would jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Institute gift was the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research. Since the genomic powerhouse was created several years ago, Broad said that it has grown to include a community of more than 1,200 of scientists from across MIT, Harvard, and Harvard?...