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...almost a decade for helping drinkers remain abstinent, could help. Taken as part of an addiction-treatment program that includes psychosocial support, Campral helped 16% to 38% of alcoholics who had already stopped drinking avoid imbibing for up to four months. Unlike current abstinence aids, which either dampen the alcohol high or make people violently ill if they drink, Campral works by restoring nerve activity in the brain's pleasure center that is altered by overindulgence in alcohol. Campral's makers expect it to be available in time for New Year's celebrations...
...scheduled opening-round clash against the defending champion Demon Deacons could do nothing to dampen the spirits of the eager Crimson squad...
...engine driving Asian economies. Fear of overheating, however, has forced Beijing's policymakers to curtail bank lending and new investment. For next year, Morgan Stanley expects China to grow at a still swift 7%, but that's much slower than the 9.5% forecast for 2004, and sluggish enough to dampen growth throughout Asia. Japan might be hardest hit. Though a sparkling recovery there had fueled hopes that more than a decade of stagnation had finally come to an end, Morgan Stanley estimates that the world's second largest economy will stumble to only 1% growth in 2005, from 4.4% this...
...scientific studies and anecdotal reports that have surfaced over the past year showing that severely depressed youngsters who take the drugs may be at increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. If the proposed warning labels prompt closer monitoring of children who are being treated for depression and dampen the cavalier way some health-care providers have been handing out these drugs, so much the better. But it would be tragic if the recommended changes amount to an informal...
...Peleg. "He doesn't like to lose. At anything. You know the saying ?the calm before the storm'? That's him - and there is a storm." It stirred in 2002, when Fridman came back to the sport and won the world championship. But rumors of an arm injury helped dampen Olympic expectations, except...