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...history of insulin coma therapy for schizophrenia. If that doesn’t ring a bell, Russell Crowe convulsing violently through the window of Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital, as a pained Jennifer Connelly looks on, probably does. John Nash, the subject of A Beautiful Mind, received the now-defunct therapy for schizophrenia. (Incidentally, convulsions only occurred in about ten percent of patients...
...Bahal: Tehelka is defunct now, but I don't want its spirit to die. Journalism is too much of a rush for me to give...
...change highlights a complicated and often tense relationship between alumnae of the now-defunct women’s college and the fledgling institute that bears its name—the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which formed in 1999 after the college’s merger with Harvard University...
...Angell blows the dust off such near forgotten minor marvels as the switch-hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite sides of the plate, and a game in 1933 (Angell was there) in which one Luke Sewell, catching for the now defunct Washington Senators, tagged out two bunched-up runners at the plate (Lou Gehrig was one of them) with a single grand, sweeping, run-cancelling gesture. Angell writes like an outfielder at the warning track, performing a running plie with outstretched glove, gracefully saving priceless wonders like these from the bleachers...
...DIED. DAVE DEBUSSCHERE, 62, one of the early titans of the National Basketball Association, the youngest coach in its history and last commissioner of the defunct American Basketball Association; in New York City. DeBusschere, who was more than two meters tall, started his career with the Detroit Pistons in 1962 and was made player-coach for the team two years later, at the age of 24. In 1968, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing...