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...Biederman and Wilens were awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study Eli Lilly's drug Strattera...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, brought to light possible conflicts of interest earlier this month when he revealed that psychiatrists Joseph Biederman, Thomas J. Spencer, and Timothy E. Wilens of Mass. General Hospital failed to report the full amount they earned from drug companies over the last seven years, according to the senator's investigation...
Letts based the play on two real-life family events: when he was 10, his maternal grandfather drowned himself, and his grandmother spiraled into drug addiction. The rest of the outré plot twists--from money squabbles to incest--are invented, he says. Still, the shocking portrait of a pill-popping, mentally unstable, almost pathologically vicious matriarch (played by Deanna Dunagan) was close enough to reality that he had qualms about showing the play to his mother. "I knew it would be difficult for her to read," he says. "But her response was, 'I think you've been very kind...
...moved to Dallas at 17 to become an actor. From there he moved to Chicago, where he became enamored of the "gritty, in-your-face theater" exemplified by Steppenwolf. But it was a struggle. He had to move back home after a year to earn money, he battled drug and alcohol problems, and, after moving to Los Angeles in 1997, he lost his girlfriend of seven years, who died from a series of strokes related to a congenital heart defect. (Letts now lives with actress Nicole Wiesner...
...Webb takes some politically risky turns in A Time to Fight, especially his chapter on the foolishness of mandatory drug-sentencing laws. He also takes a well-calibrated, if expected, swing at the Bush Administration's naive neoconservative foreign policy - after all, Webb opposed going to war in Iraq in a 2002 Washington Post Op-Ed piece. But he is best on matters of immediate concern to his personal tribes, the military and the Scots-Irish working class. "The ultimate question," Webb writes about Democrats and the military, "is this: When you look at a veteran, what...