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...appearance of agranulocytosis -- marked by a drop in white blood cells -- is always tragic. Some patients, when informed that they must immediately go off clozapine, beg to remain on it rather than descend again into madness. Phil, 36, was awakened by clozapine after 13 years of suffering. Thanks to the drug, he was able to work part time in a grocery store and start up a social life. Then agranulocytosis struck, and he had to be taken off the drug. "He has his voices and moods again," his father reports sadly. "We'll just have to wait for something else...
...African National Congress has repeatedly said they were committed to negotiations. If they allow the matter to descend into chaos, then many of us will doubt that they were. They had already decided ((to quit talks with the government)) before the Boipatong massacre because they could not have their...
...Harvard Summer School students who descend upon the Yard each summer never fill every dorm, Lichten said. Usually, Facilities Maintenance rotates the used dorms yearly, doing minor construction work in the unused building. This year, the summer school is trying to house students as far as possible from the construction sites.Matthews Hall and Hollis Hall, for example, willremain empty until the fall...
...overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor plumbing is a luxury in Rio's fetid hillside slums, and health officials are concerned that the cholera epidemic advancing across Latin America will soon descend...
Every year at Commencement time, dozens of alumni descend on the banks of the Charles for a week of green grass, bright tents and reunion symposia. And when the alumni arrive the University rolls out the red carpet and all the little perks...