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Halcion acts on the brain's limbic system, which plays a major role in the genesis of sleep and the emotions. Because it lasts in the body only a matter of hours, it can trigger a boomerang effect, unleashing the very anxiety it was meant to tame. Adverse reactions become more common the higher the dose. Doses of as much as 1.0 mg were once prescribed in Europe, but the recommended dose is now only 0.25 mg. In most cases where Halcion has allegedly been linked to violent behavior, the people took more than is deemed safe, had been drinking...
...Broz Tito. Ancient enemies, Croatians and Serbs had dangerous scores to settle. One-eighth of Croatia's 4.75 million people are Serbs, and super-Serb Milosevic offered them a cause. Serbian guerrillas have seized perhaps one-third of Croatia -- mostly in the lowland east neighboring Serbia and in the boomerang-shaped republic's coastal south. The heavily Serb-officered federal military has aided and probably armed them right along, but it avoided large-scale attacks until last week...
Doubtless one reason for Robb's consternation is that some of his advisers had considered the tape a potential weapon against Wilder. Instead it became a boomerang. The conversation was intercepted in October 1988, while Wilder was still lieutenant governor and Robb was running for the Senate. Though allied in most campaigns, the two had also skirmished for years. In the taped conversation, Wilder pronounced Robb "finished" because of reports of his presence at cocaine parties in Virginia Beach. Talking about his own 1989 race for Governor, Wilder said, "I don't want his endorsement, don't need his endorsement...
Arms purchases on such a scale could not have occurred without the implicit ! approval of governments. "A deliberate effort to fail to be informed," says Cordesman, "is just another form of collaboration." In a belated acknowledgment that arming one perceived monster to fight another can boomerang, Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet counterpart, Alexander Bessmertnykh, issued a joint statement last week calling for restraint in the "spiraling arms race" in the Middle East. A gesture, most likely, both too little and too late...
...even Lynch must know that every fad must fade. Any enthusiasm with the velocity of Twin Peaks mania is bound to boomerang. "Fame is an unnatural thing," says Mark Frost, Lynch's TV partner and Twin Peaks co-producer. "There is no equivalent to it in the animal kingdom." A director on the edge gets critical indulgences when he steps into the mainstream; a director on top is ripe for a raspberry. The trick for Lynch is to keep the ebb of acclaim from affecting either his work or his attitude toward...