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...shift has caused many to ask whether prevalence has really increased 200-fold in half a century, or whether the definition of depression has been deliberately broadened and blurred by drug companies and others - part of a trend to medicalize moods that were once accepted as falling within the normal range of human emotions. Despite record sales of antidepressants in Australia, drug companies and mental-health lobby groups maintain there are still hundreds of thousands of Australians with undiagnosed depression...
...reduced to sleeping on friends' couches, he recalls, and that he finally gave up to make some money. In the beginning, business didn't work out any better than politics. His initial venture, in energy, failed in six weeks; his second one, in real estate, took six months to fold. But in the early 1980s, Warner saw possibility in the far-out idea of cellular telephones and organized investor groups to apply for the free licenses then available. In return he got a stake in the new companies, one of which was Nextel. His friends, Warner recalls, thought...
...more. See, in truth, I don’t really want to mess around with these boys, I want to mother them. I don’t want to stay up late with them, I want to finish their problem sets for them, drape crisp button-downs on them, fold their laundry with them, and throw their old Gatorade bottles away for them. Even when I’m sure it’s been one skipped section or several un-returned phone calls too many, they look lovingly at me (slightly red-eyed from heavy partying) and silently...
...Harvard football team was even alive in 1982. And so, the Crimson took the field against the Big Green looking to play solid football and improve. Contending for a title was out of everybody’s mind. The hope for the rest of the season was two-fold. Obviously, wins were still most important. But also, developing sophomore Liam O’Hagan, his new favorite target freshman Alex Breaux, and the rest of Harvard’s young and talented core were priorities. As much as everyone tried to avoid saying it, thoughts—at least...
...wood block world I had created them, my sister was usually busy with an itsy-bitsy scenario of her own. Polly Pocket consisted of finely painted people of plastic about a centimeter-high which you could make sit at chairs in their itty bitty little plastic house which would fold up into some sort of little girl shape and take up a wallet-sized amount of your living space. Sadly, since companies don’t trust children of any age not to ingest everything they own, Polly was fed some growth hormones. The new genetically engineered playmate...