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Imagine, then, the sensation for three teenage archers -- half of the third Olympic team ever sent from the Land of the Thunder Dragon -- as they stepped out of their landlocked Himalayan kingdom and into the flashbulb glare of Barcelona's Olympics. Anxiously consulting an astrologer before they left, Bhutan's Olympians -- all archers -- had never boarded a plane before, or experienced summer heat. The Olympic Village was almost the size of their capital, Thimbu. And the biggest shock of all, said Namgyal Lhamu, was "the sea," which she, like the others, had only read about at home. "I thought Barcelona...
...cautions Dr. Herbert Y. Meltzer, director of the Biological Psychology Laboratory at Case Western Reserve's affiliated University Hospitals and one of the leading U.S. authorities on clozapine. "You see small, steady changes." Still, the 10% of patients who experience a dramatic awakening can be overwhelmed by the bright glare of reality and by the grief of having lost so much time to mental illness. To help patients with this "Rip Van Winkle syndrome," the Case Western group has learned that each small step forward with clozapine must be carefully nurtured with psychological counseling. Without it, the awakened patients...
Robb lives deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains, off a dirt road that winds through the defunct hamlet of Zinc, past dilapidated mobile homes, rusting farm equipment and rocky pastureland. Chickens and goats pause in the road along Sugar Orchard Creek, and neighbors glare warily at unfamiliar visitors. The Grand Wizard's home, a weathered cedar dwelling and several ramshackle outbuildings, is built on 100 forested acres. Inside, Robb's pleasant wife, Muriel, prepares dinner while Oprah chatters away on a TV set in the cluttered living room. One son, Jason, 18, ponders his homework; another son, Nathan, 21, hauls...
Minkus doesn't cut an imposing figure. Nor does she have the hardened glare of a four-year athlete. Yet Minkus isn't just one of these people. She's all of them...
...Americans will just have to accept more of what they almost universally decry: more dependency, more wasted national and human resources, more generations of children growing up in poverty, more unproductive and unskilled citizens, more racial tension and, finally, a more polarized society in which haves and have-nots glare at each other across a widening economic and social chasm. And if that's not a national crisis, what...