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Like so much coming out of the White House, Hillary's anger could be one more piece of spin, which makes it hard to interpret her switch to a hyper-smiley face during a flurry of public appearances at the end of last week. If Hillary had been faking anger because that's what any normal person would feel, she did it well. Rather than say anything herself, she issued a chilly statement of forgiveness through an aide. The Administration seemed eager to disclose that the Martha's Vineyard vacation was a time for "healing." It certainly wasn...
...struggles in school. Family friends say Kip showed signs of intelligence but had trouble in the classroom. His parents put him on Ritalin for a time and, when he was later diagnosed with depression, Prozac. "He was a different kid," says family friend Berry Kessinger. "He was kind of hyper. He could actually be really obnoxious...
...remarkable--and in ways lamentable--product of youthful promiscuity and higher sexual IQ is the degree to which kids learn to navigate the complex hyper-sexual world that reaches out seductively to them at every turn. One of the most positive results: the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and of teenage pregnancy is declining. Over the past few years, kids have managed to chip away at the teenage birthrate, which in 1991 peaked at 62.1 births per 1,000 females. Since then the birthrate has dropped 12%, to 54.7. Surveys suggest that as many as two-thirds of teenagers...
Graves' Disease is an auto-immune disorder in which the body unaccountably attacks itself. In such disorders, the immune system is hyper-vigilant, prepared to fight off enemy viruses at all times. But when no such enemies are present, the immune system turns against its own tissues. This in turn weakens the body's ability to resist viral infection, and the vicious cycle plays itself out ad infinitum. It's unclear whether the viruses cause the disease or the disease causes the viruses. It is known that Graves' Disease is hereditary to a certain extent, although there is no clear...
...real story of the election is not that the hyper-conservative Beth A. Stewart '00 was elected council president. She, like all of her competition, was remarkably bland. This year, for the first time in the last four years, none of the candidates running for president or vice president of the council had tried for one of those offices previously. The field was young and filled with leaders by default, not by those who have in the past defined a strong vision for the council...