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...first, the effects of serotonin seemed confined to the body alone: it was found to trigger contractions in the muscles and intestines and to regulate blood pressure by forcing blood vessels to constrict. But experiments at the National Institutes of Health in the 1950s revealed that compounds that depressed serotonin levels depressed patients as well. Not long after, researchers found two more clues to the serotonin-depression connection. The first was that reserpine, an anti-blood-pressure medicine that depresses serotonin levels, can sometimes trigger depression. The second came from iproniazid, originally developed as an anti-tuberculosis agent. The medicine...
DIED. RICHIE ASHBURN, 70, a.k.a. Whitey, wisecracking baseball Hall of Famer who flayed the competition at the bat and on the mike; of a heart attack; in New York City. A Philly Whiz Kid in the 1950s, Ashburn was a sight in the outfield--a blond streak of pure energy. He won two batting titles, tied a major league record in putouts and later, as a Philadelphia commentator, set another in putdowns as he groused at umpires in his broad Nebraska twang...
...Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. The organizations have been giving the AIDS drug AZT to half of the infected mothers in their international study, while the other half get placebos ? and according to the journal, this is as ethically shaky as the notorious Tuskegee study, a 1950s experiment that denied syphillis treatment to black men in Alabama. But as TIME Medical Correspondent Christine Gorman reports, the comparison won't wash, "because there is still an open question as to what the effect of AZT in utero is." Not to mention that HIV can also be passed from...
...Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi offered al Fayed a share in a Khashoggi business that exported Egyptian-made furniture to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and not long after, al Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi in 1955. He divorced her after two years and went...
This semester, Thomas presents Slavic 132: "Post-War Czech Prose Fiction and Drama," examining the development of Czech literature-novel, short story and drama-from the Communist Bloc days of the 1950s to the newly capitalized present...