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...points. In April Chiles defused a crisis by dealing openly with a disclosure that he had taken the common antidepressant drug Prozac for four months to combat moods he called the "blacks." But last week Chiles confirmed that he has resumed taking the drug, leading Nelson's running mate for lieutenant governor to suggest publicly that Chiles might be a "suicide" risk as Governor...
...generation is afraid of relationships in general, and they are the ultimate skeptics when it comes to marriage. Some young adults maintain they will wait to get married, in the hope that time will bring a more compatible mate and the maturity to avoid a divorce. But few of them have any real blueprint for how a successful relationship should function. "We never saw commitment at work," says Robert Higgins, 26, a graduate student in music at Ohio's University of Akron...
Finding a date on a Saturday night, let alone a mate, is a challenge for a generation that has elevated casual commitment to an art form. Despite their nostalgia for family values, few in their 20s are eager to revive a 1950s mentality about pairing off. Rick Bruno, 22, who will enter Yale Medical School in the fall, would rather think of himself as a free agent. Says he: "Not getting hurt is a big priority with me." Others are concerned that the generation is too detached to form caring relationships. "People are afraid to like each other," says Leslie...
Maryland's Republican gubernatorial candidate has redefined the term running mate: he proposes his wife Lois for lieutenant governor. He calls her a "very substantive person." She says, "For so many years women have been behind their men. It's time that they be beside them...
...back in power in Panama. At the White House, President Clementine Fox is brooding about sending troops to dislodge him, and her peacenik husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became President when her running mate, the victorious Democratic candidate, was brained by a fish (no assassination, just a 13-lb. porgy ex machina sucked up by a waterspout and dumped on him by fate and a desperate author...