Word: despairing
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...Arkansas physician to send him an antidepressant, which arrived shortly before his death. While the drug may have been a step in the right direction, such medication, says Dr. Frederick Guggenheim, chairman of the University of Arkansas' department of psychiatry, can initially restore one's energy without lifting the despair. It may have served only to give him enough life to take...
...People. And for the disbeliever, this shocker: this isn't a neurotic nightmare--here at Harvard, we lazies have met the enemy, and it is the overachieve. When we return to school and read that they've already won the Hoopes, the rest of us will sink back in despair...
Sometimes the guns are for protection, a youngster's seemingly prudent response to the small-arms race among his peers. But often, guns and gunfights are just a defense against the inexplicable despair that torments so many American teenagers. While the basic destructive impulses of rebellious young men remain unchanged, the methods of rebellion are now far more dangerous. Today's miscreants know that a pistol says much more than long hair or a pierced nose ever could. Not just louder, but forever. With a $25 investment, all the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest and weakest...
...with tragedy. In the early 1960s, thousands of European women who took the sedative during pregnancy gave birth to children with no arms or legs, and only the vigilance of the Food and Drug Administration prevented a similar disaster in the U.S. But the old drug that once brought despair may one day generate hope for the victims of a modern plague. In an experiment that began in 1992, researchers at Rockefeller University are testing the possibility that thalidomide can fight the ravages of AIDS...
HAITI: Return to Despair...