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...succumbing to it can be addictive. Such pleasurable neurotransmitters as dopamine, now implicated in drug dependency, weren't created by Mother Nature to boost cocaine sales, after all. Their natural function is to reinforce habits that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...
Foxwell compared the educational function ofthe formal sponsored by the Student Friends of theHUAM with the wild party atmosphere of the HMSformal, the "Snowflake Soiree...
HEAVY MAMAS Pregnant women who are overweight before pregnancy face a threefold increased risk of having a stillborn baby. It's thought that Mom's high lipid levels may somehow impair the placenta's ability to function...
Since the microcomputer became relatively affordable, its use in basic word and data processing has remained a constant function. People wrote papers, created databases and spreadsheets in 1985, and they still do today. If you tried to hand in a written paper now, your teacher would probably slap you first, then laugh...
Although his lawyers have not claimed that Kaczynski is incompetent to stand trial, they still believe, despite their shift in strategy, that he is psychotic. But the particular illness he has poses problems for them. People with paranoid schizophrenia are often able to function relatively normally. Indeed, no one watching the neatly dressed former Berkeley professor scribbling notes and conferring with his attorneys would say he looks insane. Insanity, the most obvious defense, was never an option because it would have required Kaczynski's lawyers to argue that he either did not know what he was doing...