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Around its couch a bright effulgence pours...
...will drive the cost of the TV up an extra $100 or $150, but some models will provide free Net access, and others will let you use your existing service. Just plug a phone line or network cable into the back of the TV, and you will be a couch-potato surfer...
Sure, the field I ply my craft on doesn't directly resemble the playing field of many Harvard sports (if nothing else, the couch I play from is greener than Ohiri Field). Still, I give my all when I'm on that couch, and the results often show...
...Later that weekend, I had a chat with Sting as he lounged on a couch in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace. "I'm having a good time," he said. He had gotten some sun, and he had also gotten in some chess while hanging out by the pool. Chess and tanning simultaneously. That's why he's Sting. "Brazilian music has informed my work from the very beginning of my career," he said. "Particularly Jobim and Ivan Lins." Sting says he's also a fan of the city of Rio. "It's a very compelling city," he said...
Still, the message out of the bottle was clear: Forget the couch; there is no psychiatric ill that cannot be chemically controlled. Even hyperactive youngsters were caught up in the pharmacological whirlwind, given daily doses of Ritalin to tame their excess energies. Critics such as Dr. Thomas Szacz worried loudly about an overly medicated, drug-dependent society. But with more than 50 million Americans suffering from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity, doctors in the clinical trenches felt they had no choice but to employ the best weapons at their disposal. Says Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, Barondes' UCSF colleague...