Word: bipolarity
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Tragically, what appeared to the air marshals to be a threat to passengers turned out to be the irrational behavior of a man with bipolar disorder who had stopped taking his medication. It was the first use of lethal force by an air marshal since 9/11, and just as happened after last summer's shooting of a man police thought was acting suspiciously on a London subway, questions quickly arose about why the deadly shooting had happened and how others can be avoided...
...Alpizar took off running down the aisle, with his wife close behind him. "She was running behind him saying, 'He's sick. He's sick. He's ill. He's got a disorder," McAlhany recalls. "I don't know if she said bipolar disorder [as one witness has alleged]. She was trying to explain to the marshals that he was ill. He just wanted to get off the plane...
...Alpizar's wife explained that she persuaded her husband to take the flight. "'He didn't want to get on the plane,'" Beshears says she told everyone in earshot. "'It's all my fault. He's sick. He's bipolar. He didn't' take his medicine...
...international team of researchers including Harvard scientists published last week a catalog of common human genetic variants—known as the HapMap—that they hope will lead to a better understanding of the causes of genetically-based diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder. Harvard researchers from the Broad Institute joined a team of 200 researchers in six nations to complete the $138 million project. Findings from the HapMap, compiled by analyzing genetic data from four ethnic groups—Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, and the Yoruba of Nigeria—were published in last week?...
...compilation in a cover featuring vacuum-packed coffee beans. They may be going for high camp, but the 130 songs, arranged chronologically--starting with M.C. Hammer's sample-based U Can't Touch This and ending with Moby's sample-based Natural Blues--more or less re-create the bipolar experience of listening to commercial radio...