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Schizophrenia is the most personally destructive and least understood of all the major mental illnesses. Its principal hallmark is extremely disordered thinking--the kind that robs many of its victims of the ability to keep a job, maintain a relationship or even hold a coherent conversation. The first serious symptoms typically begin sometime after puberty, in the late teens or 20s. Some but not all schizophrenics suffer hallucinations. Some but not all schizophrenics hear voices. The cause is undeniably physical--perhaps the unhappy combination of a genetic predisposition and an infection suffered in the womb. In any event...
...after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million a year in revenues when you add up movie grosses, TV ad sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus. The newer series haven't done as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but last year...
...after 664 TV shows and a 35th birthday last year, the franchise still generates perhaps $200 million a year in revenues when you add up movie grosses, TV ad sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus. The newer series haven't done as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but last year...
...Delay has long been a hallmark of the Ghan legend, which was named for the "Afghan" cameleers whose strings of camels carted goods to and from the train depots. The railroad on which it runs is often subjected to the intense weather of the Australian outback. Flash floods and sand drifts would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide...
This year, for the first time in the history of the World Series, two wildcard teams went head to head. The Giants and the Angels, both small-market franchises, represent a triumph of talent and teamwork over the bloated payrolls that have been the hallmark of World Series teams in recent years. Even if game seven had gone the other way—if Barry Bonds (the preeminent hitter of his time, whatever one thinks of his personal deportment) had finally won a ring—this World Series would have had a feel-good finish. And of course...