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...plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned masses sporting Cleveland Indians caps and L.A. Raiders shorts. The basketball junkies from the land of Johnson, Jordan, Bird and Barkley are still asleep. But inside the arena, there are large men, graceful and lithe, already hard at work. Their goals: silver, bronze or merely a good finish in the basketball tournament...
...whole thing is such a lollapalooza that that's what they call it -- the Lollapalooza '92 tour. The show, which began on July 18 and will play 30 cities through Sept. 13, has already sold out in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City, where it took just 30 minutes for fans to snap up all 36,000 tickets. Lollapalooza, now in its second season, is the cutting edge of summer concert action, and it is pioneering the new byword of touring: value-added. Superstars aplenty are plying the circuit this summer -- Phil...
...nightmares, fiendish voices and the alarming conviction that her parents were actually witches. What she can recall clearly is the moment two years ago when it all came down to one choice: Should she dive headfirst or feetfirst from the third-floor window ledge of her room in a Cleveland boarding house? Feetfirst, she decided. It meant a fractured hip, multiple bruises -- and survival...
Moss, Buchberger, Fitch and their fellow promgoers were awakened from their long nightmare of insanity by a remarkable drug called clozapine (brand name: Clozaril). The dinner dance, organized with help from psychiatrists and counselors at Case Western Reserve's affiliated University Hospitals, in Cleveland, served as a bittersweet celebration of shared loss and regained hope. "Those of us who are ill travel on a different road," said prom chairman Fitch in a welcoming address to his fellow refugees from madness. "We would have liked to have gone to our senior proms, but fate didn't give us that chance...
...family of drugs, clozapine primarily blocks the neurotransmitter serotonin, though it also inhibits dopamine transmission to some degree. The fact that it influences both neurotransmitters may help explain its greater effectiveness. Still, "nobody completely understands why clozapine is a superior drug," says Dr. Luis Ramirez, chief of psychiatry at Cleveland's VA hospitals...