Word: explains
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...bonus, it at least partly reduces the passivity of schizophrenics as well as their more blatant symptoms. In contrast to the Thorazine family of drugs, clozapine primarily blocks the neurotransmitter serotonin, though it also inhibits dopamine transmission to some degree. The fact that it influences both neurotransmitters may help explain its greater effectiveness. Still, "nobody completely understands why clozapine is a superior drug," says Dr. Luis Ramirez, chief of psychiatry at Cleveland's VA hospitals...
...fact high school stuff might not be such a great idea, after all. At Harvard you have the opportunity to be someone completely new. That varsity football letter Jacket Might be hard to explain if you come here and decide you want to join, say, the society of Nerds and Geeks...
When I interviewed the Dean of the Faculty for The Crimson one day last winter, he beckoned me to join him at his University Hall office window. Pointing to Weld, the building next door, he began to explain why the Yard dorms needed renovation so badly. My former home, he told me, was simply decrepit...
...adult to even like another. Almost impossible." No argument there. But what about Spencer Tracy's wife Louise, home with their deaf child. "We never lived together. He stayed in one house on George Cukor's estate, and I stayed in another nearby." Does that nicety of real estate explain why many members of the press came to romanticize her 27-year affair with Tracy? "I never talked to them. Never. They could write what they wanted but without any quotes from me, though. So they lost interest...
Souljah has not hit it that big: her videos are not played on MTV. She charges that both the Post and Clinton had deliberately misinterpreted her remarks. Rather than advocating the revenge killing of whites, she insists, she was trying to explain the mind-set of black youths who have experienced so much violence at the hands of whites that murder means nothing to them. That touched off a round of heated commentary on op-ed pages, as 50-something pundits, black and white, wrestled with the thorny issue of Souljah's artistic intent. The matter could have been settled...