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...failed my classes in a rather spectacular way,” reflects Eric. “It takes some effort to fail three classes.” Eric’s descent into depression was at the root of his difficulties. “Beyond a certain point, it’s just numbness, nothingness, not being able to think of a reason to get out of bed, to eat something.” Harvard’s environment didn’t help...
...Food and Drug Administration that comes with a race-specific label: FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ONLY. When researchers first tested BiDil as a treatment for congestive heart failure, its makers found it had little benefit over a placebo. But in a subset of subjects, who were of African-American descent, the drug, taken along with other medications, reduced deaths from the condition 43% and lowered the number of hospital admissions almost 40%. Researchers say it won't be the last ethnically driven drug on pharmacy shelves; as the genetic basis of diseases becomes clearer, more therapies based at least in part...
...studying in the French capital. “Talking to other Parisians, I’ve also noticed that they are not very alarmed; the violence seems pretty removed from Paris itself.” The violence was sparked in a Parisian suburb, where two youths of North African descent were electrocuted as they hid from police in an electric power station. The unrest then spread to become the worst in France in 40 years, as rioters set 9,000 cars ablaze and 3,000 people were detained by authorities. Order was only restored in the last few days...
...screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mch Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they had no choice but to endure it. Chance played more capriciously with the Americans, who liked to think they were in charge of their destinies. Yet Flag...
...boyish-looking Badian, 36, of East European descent, seems an unlikely key figure in a high-stakes Wall Street intrigue. Yet long-standing criminal and civil charges place Badian at the center of a scheme to lend Arizona software developer Sedona much needed operating capital, then trigger the collapse of its stock and profit from the company's demise. This pattern is also alleged in the civil suit handed to Badian on Aug. 8 in his apartment in Austria--only this time the mark was pet-supplies company Pet Quarters, based in Lonoke...