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...Early that day, Stipe told the local press, when asked about President-elect George Bush, that "he is not our president." But he's in a more relaxed mood now. He says he's working on several movie follow-ups to "Being John Malkovich," which he coproduced, and he has a new R.E.M. album due out in April ("Reveal"), but as far as touring goes, he and his bandmates are taking it easy. In fact, they have only two dates scheduled for 2001 - Saturday night's show at Rock in Rio and another performance in Buenos Aires...
...decades ago, kids with severe forms of those illnesses may have been too sick to go to college. But with the advent of antidepressants and mood stabilizers like Prozac and Zoloft, many of these students can thrive on campus. College counselors say the number of students requesting mental-health services has climbed considerably in the past decade...
Prozac is another drug that targets a particular neurotransmitter, plugging up brain chemicals that absorb the mood elevator called serotonin. Competing ssris (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), as they're called, include Lilly's duloxetine and Solvay Pharmaceuticals' fluvoxamine. Both drugs affect the same biochemical pathways, only with greater precision and fewer side effects. But better ssris aren't the only new approach. Sanofi-Synthelabo is looking into the potential of a so-called mao (monoamine oxidase) inhibitor called befloxatone. Monoamine oxidase is another serotonin-disrupting enzyme, so anything that inhibits it should make more of the mood-elevating chemical available...
...Funny that the Adams family (President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams, who was the grandfather of Henry) keeps popping up. George Bush the Elder, in a jocular dynastic mood, has taken to calling his son "Quincy," and over the weekend, the New York Times published a pre-inaugural ranch interview with W. in which the President-elect mentioned he was reading a biography of John Quincy Adams: "If [my father]'s going to refer to me as Quincy, I might as well find out what the fellow was all about...
...hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become...