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...come a long way from Freud's couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac. According to Dr. Bruce Cohen of Harvard's McLean Hospital, we're on the cusp of a new era in treatment as the search for a single magic pill for depression gives way to a broad spectrum of therapies...
...plants, to the U.S., where the Bush Administration has strong ties to the oil industry. But the momentum toward clean renewables is undeniable. Globally, solar- and wind-energy output is growing more than 30% annually--far faster than conventional fuels--and their cost is plummeting. "We are on the cusp of an energy revolution," says Christopher Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington nonprofit. "It will be as profound as the one that ushered in the age of oil a century...
...cusp of change? Conceivably. Since 2000 the count of U.S. billionaires and millionaires has declined. Wealth momentum and hubris are slowing and possibly reversing. Enron et al may be crystallizing the beginning of a new popular suspicion of corporations. Debate, at least, is finally being joined...
...even as Washington's policy remains static, Cuban reality may be on the cusp of significant changes. Fidel Castro, who turned 75 last summer, may have outlasted nine U.S. presidents and everything from exploding cigars to botched invasions, but he cannot outwit time. Nor can the socialist economy he built largely on Soviet handouts resist the unsentimental forces of globalization that rule the post-Cold War world...
...Lakers are on the cusp of achieving sports immortality, close to joining the Yankees and Manchester United as the only current dynasties in professional team athletics. Yet while we watch Shaq & Co. win their third straight title this June, their quest will not be complete, for they will still be chasing the legacies of all the great teams that preceded them...