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...would have taken a truly great floor debate to begin resolving some of those difficult areas - a half dozen thorny deal-breakers (how to contain costs, what to do about China) that need to be figured out before any such bill can pass. But not much of that table setting took place last week, because the debate never made it past the partisan bickering and economic fear mongering. Lieberman-Warner was strangled in its crib, because moderate Democrats weren't ready to go this far, because Boxer and the enviros weren't willing to compromise on their core issues...
Your brain is going to sweep and swell into all sorts of new directions and dimensions. It will encounter Ambiguity. Ambivalence. Algebra. Your body is about to be taken over by aliens, behave in ways you can't control, grow in ways you can't contain. At times your feet will seem nowhere near the ground. I fell down the stairs a lot in middle school. Basic coordination was often beyond me. Confusion is part of the curriculum...
...then Major E. Cameron Ritchie, an Army psychiatrist, was among the first to suggest that SSRIs should deploy with Army combat units. In a paper written and published after she returned from a combat deployment to Somalia, Ritchie noted that the sick-call chests used by military doctors "contain either outdated or no psychiatric medications." She concluded, "If depressive symptoms are moderate and manageable, medication may be preferable to medical evacuation...
...soundtrack of the courtroom video feed is broadcast on a 20-second delay to allow a security officer to block transmission of statements that might contain classified material. Every statement from any of the defendants is presumptively considered classified, and each has been warned not to discuss secret material - presumably involving details of where they were secretly interrogated abroad and other sensitive matters...
...respond to two different types of quitting programs - nicotine replacement or bupropion (Zyban). Nicotine-replacement methods, including the patch, pill and gum, work by weaning the smoker off nicotine gradually, usually over a period of weeks or months. Bupropion, on the other hand, is an antidepressant, which does not contain nicotine; instead, it works to curb nicotine cravings by interfering with the reward circuit in the brain, where addictions - to nicotine and other drugs, or behaviors - are reinforced. Nationally, about 70% to 80% of smokers say they want to quit, but any single attempt, regardless of the quitting method...