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...forth between depressions and highs in cycles that can stretch over months. During the depressive phase, they experience hopelessness, loss of interest in work and family, and loss of libido--the same symptoms as in major (or unipolar) depression, with which bipolar is often confused. The depressive curtain can descend with no apparent cause or can be triggered by a traumatic event such as an accident, illness or the loss...
...having the courage to call for a stop to human cloning of any kind [VIEWPOINT, June 24]. More and more people are being seduced by the idea that human cloning will bring health discoveries that will cure many significant illnesses. Perhaps so, but what a slippery slope to descend! FRANCES VANDERSCHAAF Vista, Calif...
...finally, will I descend into sentiment and list the things I’ll be sorry to leave behind—the madness and hubbub, the predictably awful yet somehow comforting social scene, my peculiar, always fascinating classmates...and above all, perhaps, the beauty of the place, and the way the red-brick grandeur along the river glows, faintly, in the slanting, failing light of a late-spring evening...
However, the book is worth a pause: Although Sazzae lacks the polished packaging of more traditional channels, although the narrative is at times unclear and difficult to follow, although the language can descend into convolution, this is not a bad book...
Students who received good news yesterday will descend on Harvard later this month during pre-frosh weekend, scheduled for April 20-22. The admitted students must send their decision to Harvard’s admissions office...