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...incident was "a downer" for the young woman in question, Davies remembers...
While the pairing with Oklahoma may have been a slight downer at the time, by Thursday the Crimson will be entirely focused on beating the Sooners...
When TIME asked me to write about my 84-year-old father and his descent into Alzheimer's disease, frankly I figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions...
WORT-LESS Here's a downer about the wildly popular herbal antidepressant Saint-John's-wort. However potent its many fans may believe the pretty yellow flower's extract to be, it interacts dangerously with two medications: the antirejection drug cyclosporine, used in organ transplants, and the protease inhibitor indinavir, used to treat AIDS. In both cases, Saint-John's-wort reduced blood concentrations of the drug, rendering it less effective...
Putting an NBA franchise in Louisville would be a terrible mistake. The college basketball fans are great, although Denny Crum's program hasn't done much recently. But come on, it's Louisville. What a downer, to go from the fourth-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of four million, to Louisville, 1998 estimated population...