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Federal farm-loan managers estimate that 90% of farmers in the area are in financial trouble. Jones says he would be broke it were not for his wife's schoolteacher salary. "Everyone's asking everyone else, 'What are you doing?'" Jones says. "We all know what to do when it rains. But nobody knows how to farm when it doesn't." --With reporting by Amanda Bower/New York...
...news in psychiatry is that this may change. Some powerful practitioners, according to a story that broke in the Washington Post last week, are lobbying for official recognition of a new and controversial category of mental illness: Relational Disorders. Dr. Michael First, associate professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and one of the principal figures behind the push, puts the case for the novel diagnosis this way: "There is evidence that relationships and how people interact in particular relationships can be disordered in a way that's very similar to mental disorders...
...DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, famed football quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to three NFL championships in the 1950s and 60s; in Timonium, Maryland. Unitas broke virtually every league passing record in the course of his 18-year career, and was named the greatest quarterback of all time in a poll commemorating the league's 50th anniversary...
...Crimson’s corner weapons, the straight shot by junior Liz Andrews proved most effective. An Andrews shot, deflected in by junior forward Mina Pell with about 15 minutes left, broke a 2-2 tie, and an Andrews score a few minutes later added the insurance...
...women’s team is looking for its third consecutive state title, with junior captain Merry Chiampa at the reins. At the Massachusetts Intercollegiate Championship last year, Chiampa broke a tie for the individual title in a dramatic playoff...