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...bipolar disorder. One of the most memorable parts of the book happens around page 10, when Fisher first learns that bipolar disorder is the reason why most of her adult life has been so, as she puts it, “f*cked up.” The doctor, upon breaking the news, easily rattles off a list of other famous and brilliant people who also suffered from a combination of alcohol and mental disorders, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Cole Porter, Yves St. Laurent, and Vivien Leigh. Add these names to a more general list of brilliant people with...

Author: By Maya E. Shwayder | Title: Mental Floss | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...shut it down, take away your electricity, take away the radio, infect your phone," he explains. "Now you don't know where I'm coming from, or if you do, you can't tell the rest of your force what's going on." More insidiously, the U.S. can doctor the information the foe gets. "I can alter the messages coming across," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Cyberwar Strategy: The Pentagon Plans to Attack | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

Chris was transported 32 miles (50 km) from San Marcos to University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin. There a doctor told Eddie and Pita Canales that their son was paralyzed from the shoulders down. Eddie, the director of operations at the University of Texas at San Antonio bookstore, quit his job to tend to his son. He turned him over every two hours to prevent bedsores because the insurance company initially refused to pay for a pressure-supported mattress. He inserted a catheter every three hours. He gave Chris medications every six hours. He slept on the floor next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Football and the Price of Paralysis | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...voters in Washington put themselves near the forefront of the budding medical-marijuana movement when they voted nearly 7 to 3 for doctor-prescribed dope - a greater majority than those in any of the other eight statewide ballot initiatives that have passed around the country. (Watch a video about medical-marijuana home delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana Finally Heads for D.C. | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

After deliberating for nearly five hours, the jury determined that neither doctor had been negligent, according to a clerk at the Mass. Middlesex Superior Court, where the trial was held...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gould’s Doctors Cleared By Jury | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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