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Even the studies that showed that estrogen improved a woman's cholesterol profile weren't ultimately all that satisfying. After all, plenty of women with normal cholesterol levels still have heart attacks. What was needed was a hard-core clinical trial so rigorously designed that no one could contest the results...
...woman who lived in the apartment under his mother's place. He and Shirley married and moved to Tacoma, Wash., and had two kids, Jennifer and Loren. Yoder attended Fort Steilacoom College and got straight A's in political science. He also sold real estate. "He was a pretty normal guy, really, except when he drank," says Shirley. They eventually moved back to Illinois, and the relationship unraveled. "There were times I ran around with black eyes," she says. They divorced...
...great influence, Szasz is usually dismissed as a crank these days. His foes say he opposes all psychiatry or that he wants to free even incompetent patients who can't feed themselves. Neither is true. But at a time when psychiatry's power has grown dramatically--when it seems normal to grow up taking Ritalin and then graduate to Prozac, when even shyness is treated with pharmaceuticals--his views are worth revisiting. And the Yoder case offers an ideal venue in which...
BEHRAVESH: One of the unusual things about productivity in this whole cycle is that it continued to rise during the expansion, whereas in the normal cycle, it tends to tail off at the end of the expansion. This time it actually accelerated during the expansion...
...practice. A Queens, N.Y., couple were indicted last May for first-degree assault, charged with nearly starving their toddler to death on a strict diet of juices, ground nuts, herbal tea, beans, flaxseed and cod-liver oils. At 16 months, the girl weighed 10 lbs., less than half the normal weight of a child her age. Their lawyer's defense: "They felt that they have their own lifestyle. They're vegetarians." The couple declined to plea-bargain, and are still in jail awaiting trial...