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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is usually associated with grownup veterans of wars or terrorist attacks, but doctors have known for some time that children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the long-term psychological scarring that can follow a close encounter with extreme violence. In that respect, there was news both bad and good last week about PTSD and children. The bad news is that the incidence of PTSD in children is higher in the U.S. than we might have expected. The good news is that effective techniques have been developed to identify--and treat--those who are most...
...kind of place where the word of the day is schadenfreude and five nightstands rearrange themselves into a "one-night stand." Instead of spelling bees and ABCs, the characters, including Princeton, an earnest, clean-cut college grad, and his sometime girlfriend Kate Monster, a kindergarten aide, confront such grownup issues as unemployment, sex and the rent...
...some real grownups are getting in the race. (Yes, it?s odd to call a six-time Mr. Universe and the star of Kindergarten Cop a political grownup, but Schwarzenegger has been preparing for this for years, unlike say, Coleman.) Several Republicans may file soon, though the recall's biggest backer, GOP Congressman Darrell Issa, ceded the field to Arnold. On the Democratic side Bustamante will file today and state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, another Democrat, will announce he is running. The campaign will hopefully shift from debates on whether a pornographer can run a state...
...years, doctors assumed that children, biochemically speaking, are little adults. So anytime they had to give a child a grownup medication, such as Prozac, they just lowered the dose on the basis of his or her weight. But in 1998 the FDA ruled that companies had to conduct pediatric tests of adult drugs. That rule followed a 1997 law offering drugmakers a six-month extension on their patents if they did so voluntarily...
...mass-market inner child. But with most big films serving as a form of pop-cultural potty training, there's a grand void to be filled for viewers who have not sent their brains to summer camp--who want the occasional film to speak to their inner grownup...