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Asked once what makes people happy, Sigmund Freud replied, "Work and love." A strange answer from the man who invented the psychoanalyst's couch? Perhaps, but in his day, doctors could offer little more for patients suffering from anxiety or depression. And when faced with intractable mental illnesses like schizophrenia, they had to resort to brute force: inducing seizures and comas with chemicals and electric shocks, infecting patients with malaria to provoke brain-clearing fever, or slicing away parts of the brain's prefrontal cortex. In general, desperation guided treatment of the deranged...
...SECURE THE HOUSE AND HOUSEHOLD LIQUOR Joel locks his doors at 1 a.m. and goes to bed. Anyone coming or going will set off his house alarm. For families without security systems, I suggest that a parent sleep on a cot or couch near the door...
...would like to go back to the years with my mother and father. It would be great to be able to go into the house where my mother was in the kitchen and my comic books were in the other room, and I could lie down on the couch and read the comics and then have dinner with my parents...
...takes his son Bonny on a summer vacation at his parents' house in India. Jayojit intends to spend his vacation bonding with his family and working on his book, but he gets lost in the easy routine of being at home. For two months, Jayojit naps on his parents' couch, eats his mother's traditional cooking and ambles through the streets of Calcutta...
Size has always mattered in the NFL, but coaches have only recently caught on to the idea that quarterbacks can and should be big too--real big. Culpepper has muscled his way to the front of a new class of big young QBs that includes Cleveland's Tim Couch, Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb, Tampa Bay's Shaun King and Cincinnati's Akili Smith--all players who can throw a football like Joe Montana and run it like Fran Tarkenton...