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SIGHTING Watching big hulking men play in the Super Bowl, viewers paying attention to the commercials also got their first look at another Hulk: actor ERIC BANA, who plays scientist Bruce Banner in a movie due out in June; his green alter ego is computer generated...
...Commission on Opportunity in Athletics will forward a report containing the recommendations it adopted at this week’s meetings to Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige. It takes an act of Congress to fundamentally change the law, but Paige can alter the way compliance is measured...
...right triggering environment. And researchers are well along in developing some promising therapies, pharmacological and otherwise, to supplement what is already available. But while the disease-depression connection is becoming more and more clear, how to uncouple them is an uncharted process. "You would think that treatment would alter the negative relationship between depression and other illness," says Dr. Dennis Charney, head of mood-and anxiety-disorders research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). But, he adds with proper scientific caution, "we don't have proof of that...
...Aging, depression, anxiety disorders and Alzheimer's may alter sleep patterns. The decline in cognitive abilities becomes more pronounced. Coordination and dexterity are also affected...
...nations." Climate isn't a crucial factor: "North Dakotans are just as happy as Floridians." Nor is money: "If you look at lottery winners, they get happy for a few months. But a year later, they're back where they were." Even a catastrophe--cancer, say--does little to alter one's overall outlook. "On average," Seligman observes, "people with one life-threatening disease are not more unhappy than the rest of the population. Of course, a cascade of bad things happening can make a difference. But if you have one really bad thing, generally you're not more unhappy...