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Polaroid already had begun testing the site's foundation when the council voted in June to require the company to perform surface-soil testing as well...
Modern medicine has grown by means of a tradition that is almost 2,400 years old. Its practices are said to have begun on the Greek island of Cos, near the western coast of Asia Minor, where a school arose around the teachings of the legendary Hippocrates. Today the name of Hippocrates is mentioned most frequently in discussions of the oath attributed to him. But the Hippocratic physicians did far more than introduce the principles from which the codes of today's medical ethics have developed...
People continued to pour into the room even as the debate was begun with a question on Kennedy's and West's changing understanding of race...
That may be true, but skeptics are worried that the company is expanding so fast into so many unrelated fields that it could become increasingly difficult to manage. To avoid becoming a victim of its own success, SIHL has begun hiring executives from Merrill Lynch, Credit Lyonnais and other major foreign companies--capitalists at the service of communist- owned capitalism. --Reported by Lynne Curry/Hong Kong...
...glance, these stories seem completely unrelated--three profoundly different disorders treated with three different drugs. Yet all three medications have one crucial element in common: they target the brain chemical serotonin. Though serotonin has been known to researchers for nearly a half-century, only in recent years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia and even...