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...anymore, though it felt like it might be the '80s all over again. MTV didn't have a ball this year; the hot ticket was the Texas Black Tie & Boots Ball--retro, perhaps, but still honoring the great Inaugural tradition of excess and bad taste. All week long the capital was filled with Halloween Texans, dressed in a way they never would have been at home. They sold out of full-length furs in Midland, Texas; for those who had never seen a ranch, $450 Stetsons were selling briskly at the Ritz-Carlton, where the chef was whipping up rattlesnake...
Those earnings could continue to rise, since the state remains woefully short of generating capacity. California's power demand has grown nearly 25% since 1995, far in excess of the state's relatively small additions to capacity. (By contrast, Texas has built 22 new plants since 1995, with 15 more scheduled to come online within a year.) That forces California's Independent System Operator (ISO), which manages the power grid, to find some 6,000 megawatts a day outside the state...
...head of the air-traffic controllers' union, pointed out that at Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where the departure rate is 11 aircraft in a five-minute period, airlines were scheduling 16 takeoffs at the very same time. LaGuardia Airport in New York City has become Exhibit A of airline excess. Although the facility can accommodate 75 flights an hour, at times there are more than 100 planes scheduled. Since airlines evidently cannot restrain themselves from overscheduling, demand could be rationed by the size of the fee that an airline pays an airport for each takeoff or landing. A slot...
Doctors have already shown that drugs called statins, which curb the body's ability to manufacture excess cholesterol, can significantly reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack. But statins don't work for everyone. So drug companies are studying the biochemical pathways by which the body pulls cholesterol that has already been manufactured out of a cell. "By turning this reverse cholesterol transport on, you'd be able to stimulate removal of cholesterol from vessel walls back to the liver for excretion," says Dr. Richard Gregg, vice president of metabolic- and cardiovascular-drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Taken...
Still, the message out of the bottle was clear: Forget the couch; there is no psychiatric ill that cannot be chemically controlled. Even hyperactive youngsters were caught up in the pharmacological whirlwind, given daily doses of Ritalin to tame their excess energies. Critics such as Dr. Thomas Szacz worried loudly about an overly medicated, drug-dependent society. But with more than 50 million Americans suffering from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity, doctors in the clinical trenches felt they had no choice but to employ the best weapons at their disposal. Says Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, Barondes' UCSF colleague...