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...tale behind the canisters is indeed deeply disturbing. They hold the remains of 5,121 people who languished in the psychiatric hospital in Salem, Oregon - many of them for their entire adult lives - for reasons that nowadays might require nothing more than a Zoloft prescription and some couch time. The patients' conditions listed in hospital records include "worries about sex" and "worries about money" - "things everyone walks around with today," Maisel says. When these patients died, their relatives either had no money for a burial or no interest in claiming the bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ashes to Art in Library of Dust | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...famously announced a break with the smoke-free policies of his mother Queen Victoria by uttering the words: "Gentlemen, you may smoke." Ulysses S. Grant's cigar habit proved his undoing, saddling him with the throat cancer that killed him. And Freud was a chimney: Patients on his couch had to endure not only running commentary about their suppressed Oedipal complexes but the acrid stench from his 20-a-day cigar habit (which ultimately killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cigar | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...depth to our 400, which we haven’t had in a lot of years.”And on the men’s side, newcomer Nico Weiler finished in a three-way tie with unattached Northeastern freshman Brian McGovern and Northeastern alum Mike Couch in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.72 meters.“Nico’s a tremendous athlete,” Saretsky said. “Working off a short approach, he shut it down early.”Senior Shannon Flahive tied for fifth in the 200-meter dash, sharing...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Opens Strong at Husky Carnival | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...comprehensive study done this year by the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia claimed the highest national per capita rate of adult obesity, overtaking the United States. This begs the question: what has fueled the transformation of skinny, marsupial-enthusiast surfers with great accents into unappealing couch potatoes? My very scientific answer: great television. I can’t help but think that, in a country with more outdoor adventures than even the guy from “Man vs. Wild” can handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty cans of Fosters...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: High on Aussie TV's 'Heights' | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

Porn star JENNA JAMESON'S white silk couch up for sale. Giant bottle of Febreze sold separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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