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...secluded island. Instead, she went on the drugs and felt better in two weeks. Author of the recently reprinted handbook Depression Explained (ABC Books), Smith espouses the biological theory of depression, of which, in her view, serotonin deficiency is just a component. "The pathway into depression is via anxiety and the overproduction of cortisol," she says. Depression still descends on her intermittently. She can "feel the biology kicking in," she says; when that happens she knows she's left things too late to recover without drugs, which she uses...
...researchers and physicians around the world access to virtual maps of how the brain functions, to compare with data they obtain from scans of their subjects or patients. By the end of next year, they should be able to project local scans free of charge into the online atlas via a computer technique called "warping." That will immediately show if some part of the brain appears to be working abnormally, compared with norms established by the scans of the 7,000 "healthy" brains. "We can do very tight matches. For example, you could look for all left-handed Chinese women...
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...equality has not yet progressed passed its training-wheels phase enough to permit young women to express themselves freely. If men can wear an Abercrombie Attitude Tee that asserts “Boss Hog Loves Cooter;” so too should women be able to declare via their t-shirt, “All Men Like Tig Old Bitties.” These examples, admittedly, are classless and of remarkably poor taste. But they are not instances of sexism or degradation toward women. Some girls, after all, just want to have fun. And there’s no reason...
June 20, 2002, 10:15 a.m. A lobbyist to his co-worker Tony Rudy, former chief of staff for Texas Congressman TOM DELAY, on their boss Jack Abramoff presumably agreeing to funnel corporate donations to DeLay via a charity: "I'm sensing shadiness. I'll stop asking. I'll break it up over the various requests to a total of $25K." Rudy replies: "Your senses are good...