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Thorazine works primarily by blocking dopamine, one of the many biochemical messengers used by the brain. This discovery, made by Dr. Arvid Carlsson of Sweden in 1967, led doctors to believe schizophrenia is caused by an excess of dopamine. That explanation has now been dismissed by many researchers as too simplistic...
...Beverly Hills Cop, and strutted to the top of the world. Cop II was even bigger. Raw, a concert film, and Coming to America cemented his grand rep. He had a hit pop single and sold-out tours. Fast Eddie had become Vast Eddie -- and then, as sure as excess follows success, Half-Vast...
...more than $2 trillion to the national debt. Or you can look at the annual record and watch the deficits mount. In the Reagan-Bush years to date, the average annual deficit has been about $200 billion. In six of those 11 years, the actual amount was well in excess of $200 billion, and this year -- despite the much ballyhooed 1990 "budget agreement" between Congress and the White House -- it will explode to some $400 billion...
...produced to teach homeless men and women how to scavenge the trash for contaminant-free food. Staged in a talk-show format, the tape is five parts useless banter and one part helpful instruction. Warnings include avoiding discarded dairy products and punctured fruits. Dunlap has had well in excess of 100 requests for the video from shelters and aid groups worldwide...
...speaking truth to power. The reporter said he had never seen anything like it -- and I tried to contrast the few weeks of Ollie with the months of MacArthur's heroization. There are many cases in America's recent past in which people have turned from an excess of disgust with things as they are to an excess of blind trust in the one man who seems to offer an escape from everything "political...