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Police described the suspect as an dark-skinned Hispanic male in his mid-20s, standing five feet four inches tall, weighing about 170 pounds, with a large round face, very full lips, short straight brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a green jacket and light colored pants at the time of the assault...
...sleeping patterns and experimentation with drugs and alcohol--especially combined with the academic stress of college life--may all play roles in triggering mental problems. Additionally, many of the major psychiatric illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, often do not manifest themselves until the late teens or early 20s...
...always heard that your 20s are your most fertile creative time; few people have accomplished anything great after 30--not Einstein, not Newton, not Linda Lovelace. Now I know it's true. At the age of 29, I have tabled all ambitions to write a novel, play or episode of JAG. Even my planned autobiography, A Mildly Amusing Work of Limited Intellect, has been set aside...
Consider schizophrenia, which strikes 1% to 2% of the world's population, including 3 million Americans, usually in their late teens or early 20s. Over the years, its harrowing symptoms--hallucinations, persistent voices, paranoia and frozen emotions--have been blamed on everything from witchcraft to the evil eye. Now scientists realize that schizophrenia is a complex syndrome resulting from the failure of various neurotransmitters--the chemical messengers that skip from one nerve cell to the next--including dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine. "Certainly it's not caused by bad parenting," says Vinogradov. Knowing which neurotransmitters are implicated in the disease...
...partisans of jazz to a dysfunctional family, and all the sniping and complaining about short shrift for today's talent miss the mark that he and Burns aimed for. They are laying a foundation, making this music, whether it's as old as Armstrong's Hot Fives from the '20s or Davis' Kind of Blue from the '50s, not only alive again but also audacious again. Liberating. The sound of perpetual American promise...