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...LeTourneau lurch into this nightmare? The answer may be found in her DNA, encoded for blond hair, brown eyes and perhaps bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. Several blood relatives filed affidavits with the court saying they had been treated for the disorder. Also, she grew up in the shadow of unapproved love: her father John Schmitz, a former ultraconservative California Congressman and college lecturer, ended his career in disgrace after fathering two children by a onetime student...
...Thucydides enlisted on the side of literal, close-focus truth. His older contemporary Herodotus took the more expansive view that people's self-images and folklore and even self-delusions are as important as the hard facts of history. Myths open windows upon fears, fantasies, possibilities. The old bipolar question always comes into play when Americans, black and white, approach the facts and myths of race...
Chirac: The bipolar world we have known is finished, and the world of tomorrow will be multipolar. One of the essential poles will be Europe. I think that the first objective of my term in office will be to work for the success of Europe. The second will be NATO modernization and the creation of a European defense pillar within the alliance. The third objective is to develop solidarity between Europe and two zones that are linked to it: the Mediterranean and Africa. The fourth objective is to confront certain important problems, such as aid to developing countries, unemployment, monetary...
...REDFIELD JAMISON IS A world authority on manic depression. She co-wrote the definitive medical text on the disease, which is also known as bipolar disorder. She has been a valued clinician and teacher, first at the University of California, Los Angeles, and now at Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...
...Bipolar, or manic, depression is characterizedby cyclic fluctations between depressed states andstates of mania, or hyperactivity...