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Across the U.S., mental-health care has become a shambles -- fragmented and misfocused. One problem: the system is geared to episodic, not chronic, care. "We're spending about 70% of our mental-health dollars for hospital care," complains Leonard Stein, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Mental Health Services Development Program. "What we're doing is waiting for people to have psychotic episodes and putting them in the hospital to take care of that, which we can do very well. But once the episode is over, that doesn't mean the person is cured." Patients are caught...
...would seem a bizarre monologue almost anywhere else, but not in the Soviet Union. Though comrades have stood in line ever since strains of the Internationale first wafted over Red Square, the queues are longer and crankier these days, thanks to chronic shortages. Biding one's time to buy soap or bread has become the form of public life most readily available to the masses. Soviets spend so much time waiting that the lines have generated a culture all their own: part rumor mill, information exchange, social club and town meeting...
...many who suffer from chronic schizophrenia, the drug clozapine seems to work miracles. One woman who thought she was God and could control the weather was in and out of mental institutions 35 times before starting on the antipsychotic drug. After only a few weeks of treatment, she was free from delusions and making plans to go to college. Clozapine, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February, could benefit an estimated 100,000 people...
...Steven Ross, chairman and co-chief executive of Time Warner, called Milken "a long-term thinker, not a quick- buck artist." Wrote Ross, who said Milken became a close friend after arranging a 1984 stock offering for the former Warner Communications: "He talks more about illiteracy in math or chronic diseases of the poor or unemployment than about interest rates...
After resigning as artistic director of American Ballet Theater a year ago, Baryshnikov thought of quitting dancing too. But despite chronic knee problems, he admits, "it's neither easy nor pleasant to leave the stage. I never thought I'd spend my last years as a modern dancer, but it's important now to work with someone I admire." He had danced Morris' work earlier and spotted him as someone who saw dance the way he did, musically. "Mark decodes a composer's thought," Baryshnikov says. "He uses dance like an extra instrument." As for Morris, he seized on "Misha...