Word: burrs
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...There’s a lot of students who hate the winter because it’s yucky and gray, and that gets them down, but that’s not necessarily SAD,” says Winthrop A. Burr, a psychiatrist...
...percent of users, and science tends to agree. “Light therapy certainly works for some people, but there’s been a lot of controversy because it’s been hard to prove it in placebo-controlled trials,” says Burr. “Still, there’s enough evidence that it is [effective...
...really don’t think there is any evidence to support them,” says Burr. “St. John’s Wort is used a lot, but it’s been proven in research to be not very effective...
...Burr was born in Virginia, but his family moved to North Carolina when he was a boy. He attended Wake Forest University, then went to work for a wholesaler of outdoor power equipment. In 1992 he made an abrupt career switch. Alarmed, as he tells it, at high taxes, he ran for Congress--and lost. In 1994 he tried again, this time riding the Gingrich tsunami to Capitol Hill...
...dogged congressional foot soldier, Burr worked hard on the Bush Administration's Medicare reform bill, supports medical-malpractice reform and a constitutional ban on gay marriage and has backed positions friendly to drug companies. Such loyalty earned him frequent campaign visits by President Bush and other members of the Administration. Even so, he had to overcome the higher public profile of his Democratic opponent, Erskine Bowles, as well as his own earlier support for free-trade agreements, which never went down well in a state with two big industries--tobacco and textiles--vulnerable to overseas competition. Burr's win flips...