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...Jeep into the lobby of a West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital and blasted away at the walls with a pistol and rifle, screaming that he was losing his mind because of Agent Orange. Two months later, he was found dead with a jug of whisky and an empty pill bottle beside him. A former artillery sergeant, Steve Androff, 33, went on last week with a fast he began on May 27 in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. It is a vet's version of the I.R.A. protest, designed to coerce some attention to victims of Agent...
...difference was found in the incidence of breast cancer. The other study involved 17,032 women who used either the Pill or an intrauterine device or diaphragm. Again no link was shown between breast cancer and oral contraceptives. But researchers are cautious...
Americans inhabit a society in which they are conditioned from infancy to believe there is a pill for every ill: what one expert calls "jet-age pharmacology." By contrast, Winston Churchill is credited with the observation that "most of the world's work is done by people who do not feel very well." In the U.S. particularly, says Psychiatrist Mitchell Rosenthal, "people believe that you don't have to feel uncomfortable if you have the right doctor, the right drug connection, the right pusher. We have lost touch with the fundamental notion that people can operate not always...
...Chueh Chang, 72, co-developer of the birth control pill, on one of its side effects: "I personally feel the Pill has rather spoiled young people. It's made them more permissive...
...that the Government would not help him. In March Hopkins donned his camouflage fatigues, drove his Jeep through glass doors into the Wadsworth lobby and shot up the walls with an M-14 rifle. Two months later he died at home, an open liquor bottle and an empty pill container near...