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Because of time constraints, The Kelley Deal 6000 could not play an encore. Between cigarettes and sips of Mountain Dew, Deal chatted with the crowd, appreciating their enthusiasm. The abrupt ending was a little anticlimactic, but at 1:30 the crowd walked out of the smoky room invigorated by the performance...
...abrupt change also reflects a deeper truth about serotonin: despite years of study and impressive breakthroughs, researchers are only beginning to understand the chemical's complex role in the functioning of the body and brain--and how doctors can make adjustments when serotonin levels go out of balance. So far, the tools used to manipulate serotonin in the human brain are more like pharmacological machetes than they are like scalpels--crudely effective but capable of doing plenty of collateral damage. Says Barry Jacobs, a neuroscientist at Princeton University: "We just don't know enough about how the brain works...
...finger pointing that followed last week's abrupt withdrawal of two of the country's favorite diet pills looked like a multiple-choice law-school torts exam, the similarity was hardly coincidental. Even before the FDA urged the recall of Redux (dexfenfluramine)--and Pondimin (fenfluramine), the front half of the fat-pill combo known as fen/phen--scores of lawyers across the nation had already started filing lawsuits. After the recall, the legal assault turned into a stampede. "Everyone saw money," says Jacoby & Meyers' Gail Koff...
...pretext for a radical stance which is not required by the decision itself: the narrowly tailored verdict requires only that a parimutuel betting system like the one at the Golden State's racetracks be used at Native American casinos, not that all gaming be put to an abrupt stop. So as long as tribes devise a system which pits competitors against each other rather than against "the house," their activities would conform to the court's ruling...
...Crimson's streak of consecutive shutouts (1-0 over both Columbia and Colorado last weekend) came to an abrupt close 34 seconds into the game when a Boston College player headed the ball into the back...