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Pinker has accepted an endowed Mind, Brain, Behavior (MBB) chair in the Psychology Department, according to Hauser, who is a personal friend...

Author: By Ben A. Black and Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard To Hire MIT Psych Professor | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...Food and Drug Administration heralded a whole new era. At first, just scientists were excited, because Prozac, as the Eli Lilly company christened it for the market, was the first in a new class of medications that would treat depression by exquisitely controlling the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical involved in mood. But the FDA's approval letter became the founding charter for a Prozac nation, as vast numbers of American consumers were seduced by a prescription to lift one's mood. Today they spend more than $1 billion on Prozac each year, to treat not just depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dec. 29, 1987 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...more than 500 miles on his Jeep Cherokee in the days just following Elizabeth's disappearance. Arrested on June 24 for an unrelated parole violation, Ricci denied any involvement in the Smart kidnapping. He would not get a chance to prove his innocence. On Aug. 27, he suffered a brain hemorrhage in his jail cell and died three days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Missing Nine Months | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

DIED. GEORGE MILLER, 61, stand-up comedian and frequent guest on David Letterman's late-night talk show; of complications from a blood clot in the brain following a long bout with leukemia; in Los Angeles. He and Letterman met on the L.A. comedy-club circuit in the 1970s, and the talk-show host invited him for more guest appearances--56--than any other comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 17, 2003 | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...first reaction to joining a theater group is 'I'm too old to memorize lines,'" says Joy Reilly, associate professor of theater at Ohio State University. "And I tell them, 'You're never too old to memorize; it'll just take longer. And it's good for your brain.'" Then those naysayers memorize their lines, and they're amazed at themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creativity: Into the Spotlight | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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