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...danger is not that a new post-Wasp personality will emerge. A nation's character is not so mutable; it takes major upheaval -- revolution, conquest -- to transform it. What is possible, however, is that the character America already possesses will slip into chronic malfunction. Most of us will keep behaving the way we always have, without knowing why, while the rest will act differently, simply for the sake of being different. It is a sad end for an ideal -- especially for one that has been as fruitful as the Wasp...
...rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (Death Row/ Interscope) is by all odds the most anticipated release in the brief history of rap. Snoop, 22, was first praised by the critics for his performance on several tracks of rapper Dr. Dre's triple-platinum 1992 album The Chronic. He landed on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Source even before turning out his first solo album. Snoop drew more attention, not to say notoriety, when police accused him of being at the wheel on Aug. 25 when his bodyguard shot another man from a car. Charged...
...many years I have suffered from a chronic depressive illness in cycles of varying intensity and duration. Although never properly diagnosed until my second year of graduate school at Harvard, I date my major episodes of depression from my thirteenth year. The following reflections are offered to everyone in the Harvard community willing to take any interest, because the various mental illnesses affect all of us in so many ways: victims most immediately, but also (sometimes drastically) family members, friends, employers, teachers, colleagues and even complete strangers. Please keep in mind that I write only as a layperson and patient...
Whether or not the widespread need for extreme privacy in these matters ever changes, there are several suggestions I have which affect everyone who reads this. Because I went through far too many years of life untreated for chronic depression and misled by several well-meaning but ignorant people, I make these imperative statements...
...have found through epidemiological and clinical studies that acute or chronic exposure to ozone has adverse effects on the respiratory medium," says Koutrakis. "Ozone is an ecological threat because of its damage to crops, trees and even paintings...