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...thus bathes the entire brain at once. Discovered in 1981 by researchers studying the biochemistry of stress, crh is known to promote vigilance and decrease interest in food and sex when administered in small doses. In higher doses, it triggers anxiety. When Philip Gold, chief of the clinical neuroendocrinology branch of the NIMH, began looking for the hormone in his depressed patients, he found it was not only elevated, but elevated all the time -- even during sleep. What looked like depression was really a state of hyper-arousal, a kind of permanent flight-or-fight response. "In melancholia," explains Gold...
...beyond science and technology now," says Bill Richards, the Ohio farmer turned chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, a branch of the Agriculture Department. "It is a cultural revolution." In the past year scs has named this new kind of farming "residue management," and its wide embrace includes techniques labeled no-till, ridge-till and mulch-till...
...managers, they say, and many did -- with the blessing of the managers, whose own incomes rose the more their salesmen produced. Moreover, they say, IBM was not so stupid as to deny itself revenue by forcing its best salesmen to sit idle. Says Henry Wendler, who was Perot's branch manager in Dallas: "If you sold 100% of your quota, you didn't stop there. You could go to 200%, 300%, 500% and get more commissions...
...following story). Altogether, allergies and asthma affect as many as 50 million people in the U.S., costing them up to $5 billion annually and accounting for 1 of every 9 visits to the doctor, including 1 of every 5 trips to a pediatrician. Despite the mass discomfort, the allergy branch of the National Institutes of Health spent only $29 million on studies of allergic disease in fiscal 1991 and another $15 million on asthma-related research...
WIRTH: You never say never, but I can't imagine myself going through this process again. You get here with a certain enthusiasm, and then you don't want to do it anymore. But I could see being in some part of the Executive Branch at some point...