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...leave patients listless and indifferent. In short, while they alleviate the so-called positive symptoms of schizophrenia -- the voices and the delusions -- they do not touch the negative symptoms of apathy and social withdrawal. Furthermore, they provide this limited sort of recovery for just 40% of patients; 30% have flare-ups of madness and must be periodically hospitalized, while the remaining 30% are considered to be "treatment resistant" and are largely confined to mental institutions...
Yeltsin's relationship with Gorbachev remains tense. Irritated by the acclaim Gorbachev received during his recent U.S. visit, the Kremlin accused the former Soviet President of "whipping up political tensions" by openly criticizing government policies and vaguely hinted that "legal steps" might have to be taken. These flare-ups of the old public feud are more reflective of the Yeltsin team's insecurity about its image abroad than of realities at home. Gorbachev has become increasingly irrelevant to Moscow politics. Yeltsin clearly has the upper hand and could make life difficult for his former rival at the constitutional-court hearings...
...categories of procurement that are growing is air- and sea-lift transports so the U.S. can rush troops to the scene of an MRC -- or perhaps to two scenes at once. For example, North Korea might attack the South just when the U.S. is preoccupied with a new flare-up in the Persian Gulf...
...more demanding and far riskier than any of the U.N.'s 23 previous peacekeeping assignments, nine of which are still ongoing. They are also far costlier. The 22,000-strong Cambodia enterprise carries a price tag of $1.9 billion over 15 months. In Yugoslavia, where hostilities continue to flare despite a formal cease-fire, the 14,000 troops begin with a one-year budget of $600 million, which is more likely to shrink than grow. But the commitment to protect Serbian enclaves in three war-ravaged areas of Croatia is open-ended, to allow for extensions in the negotiations being...
Some festival boosters are worried that racial tensions ignited by the debate could flare into attacks on the 30,000 participants who ride the lavishly designed floats amid crowds of onlookers. Some wives pressured their husbands not to ride the floats. "There's an ugly spirit; people are angry," said councilwoman Peggy Wilson. "People on the floats feel like they're going ) to be sitting ducks...