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...like hell to finagle my way into Delta Gamma's weekend rush event, but I get nowhere fast ("If you were a girl," one of the members instructs me, "you could come, but..."). So I settle for a talk with the chapter's Vice-President Social Standards, Rebecca L. Hughes '99, a girl I happened to go to high school with...
...club near her hometown of La Porte, Texas, with nausea and a severe headache. Within 24 hours the 17-year-old varsity volleyball player was dead. An autopsy showed no sign of alcohol or drugs. Then, alerted by Houston police of the dangers of a new club drug called gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, investigators decided to take a second look. Sure enough, Farias' tissues showed that she had died of a GHB overdose. "This kid was a role-model type," says La Porte Lieut. Carl Crisp. "There's nothing to indicate that she willingly took this drug...
Although it is difficult to determine how many fraternities and sororities exist at the College because of their underground status, a number of students said yesterday they believe there are two sororities currently operating at the College--Theta and Delta Gamma--and one fraternity, Sigma...
...better or worse, the driving force behind that revolution is pure economics. Gamma-radiation knives, wondrous devices that focus tiny cobalt beams precisely on microscopic brain malignancies and malformations, cost $3 million each but may ultimately reduce the need for other costly therapies and thus afford a net saving to society. Sophisticated scanning devices--computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear-imaging systems--cost hospitals millions of dollars, and patients (or their insurers) are typically charged thousands for their use. But by pinpointing hard-to-find tumors and other signs of disease, these machines save invaluable time...
...would happen if we designed a drug that was 10 times better than Clozaril?" Mount Sinai's Davis, on the other hand, thinks future schizophrenia drugs might well be based on altogether different chemical-messenger systems. "There is evidence that schizophrenics have abnormalities in two very common neurotransmitters, gaba [gamma-aminobutyric acid] and glutamate," he says. "None of the current drugs do anything for the most incapacitating symptom of schizophrenia, the cognitive deficits. Maybe it's time to get off the dopamine merry-go-round we've been on for 40 years...