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...ANTI-SHOPPING PILL Drug companies are always alert for new and profitable uses for their products, and now Forest Laboratories reports--just in time for the holidays--that its antidepressant Celexa is effective against compulsive-shopping disorders. Shop-till-you-drop seems to be a real syndrome; sufferers consumed by the need to buy are often plunged into debt as a result. Now research financed by Forest shows that within three months of taking Celexa, nearly 80% of the 21 patients studied experienced improved symptoms...
Although there hasn't been much noise about terrorism as the year 2001 approaches, the FBI and Defense Department have quietly put their counterterror units in a state of high alert. Reason: Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, which ends on Dec. 26, includes the Night of Power, marking the time the first verses of the Koran were revealed to the prophet Muhammad. The anniversary of that holy event falls on Dec. 23 and is thought by FBI analysts to be of particular significance to radical Jihadists such as OSAMA BIN LADEN. According to one FBI official, as many as three...
...LIFE STYLE Design guru Bruce Mau argues passionately that form is inextricable from message. Nowhere is that truer than in his 624-page book, part portfolio, part manifesto, urging readers to become alert to the meanings transmitted in "the global image economy...
MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. I hate junk e-mail as much as the next person, but it is wise to sign up for automated alerts that tell you when there are great deals on places you would like to visit. Almost every site offers these, but I especially like the ones on lastminutetravel.com travelocity.com and qixo.com Instead of deluging you with weekly messages, they alert you only when fares reach target prices that you have specified in advance...
...Palestinian economy was planting the seeds of a regional war. The Israeli blockade has quadrupled Palestinian unemployment, and the two months of the uprising have seen income losses to Palestinians totaling more than $500 million dollars. Indeed, the World Bank's $12 million donation is primarily a gesture to alert the international community to the problem - after all, the Palestinian economy's losses as a result of the uprising are estimated to be growing at $9 million...