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...essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies is predisposed to be timid because of hypersensitivity of the amygdala -- a small structure in the brain. Fixing such problems may sound like better living through chemistry, but it rattles the very bedrock of identity...
...planning screening programs. Federal officials needed to know how fast the virus was spreading, and they were particularly concerned about the vulnerability of childbearing women. But aids activists were fiercely opposed to mandatory screening, since identification of HIV- positive mothers could mark them for discrimination. Since there was no cure or even a good treatment for aids, knowing the results of the test would not help the mother and child much anyway. The cdc ultimately decided to set up blind screening, and 44 states eventually agreed to be part of the program...
...strategy made sense at first, but advances in treatment have changed the ethical equation. While a cure is still elusive, doctors have learned how to use antibiotics and other drugs to ward off some of the most devastating complications of aids. For babies, timing is the key to effective treatment. They have such immature immune systems that HIV makes them much sicker, much more quickly than it does adults. So doctors must start treatment as soon after birth as possible...
...Alan Greenspan -- just as Ronald Reagan's best economic deed was standing by without protest as Fed chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...
...population dwindled throughout the 1970s and '80s, which was a period of unparalleled prosperity. But that decline was a result of smaller families and falling birthrates, not depression and early death. Eastern Europe's illness is as much of the spirit as of the body. Politicians, not doctors, must cure...