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...thank god that you published this story on bipolar youngsters [BEHAVIOR, Aug. 19]. Now if only the public would "get it" and understand this illness, which used to be referred to as manic depression. Three years ago, I lost my 19-year-old son to suicide. No one listened to me when I said he was mentally ill and needed help. People concentrated on his behavior, not to mention my parenting. Counselors, psychologists, a hospital mental ward (twice), psychiatrists--we went through all that before his diagnosis. All those years of trying to find help, fighting the system...
...Hilary's world, no one had ever been seriously ill, let alone died. Indeed, it was such a blue-sky existence that George and Ginny had begun to worry about how their daughter would react when she finally faced a loss. In the spring of 2001, they started gingerly preparing her for what they thought would be the first death in the family: their 17-year-old, half-deaf cat Clancy...
...poor and experiencing severe food shortages, but we aren't ready to expose our people to ill-defined risks." LEVY MWANAWASA, President of Zambia, refusing U.S. food aid because the grain is genetically modified...
...more than a quarter of the total assets parked by residents of one country in another. (Use the word offshore to a Swiss banker and you?re liable to get a half-hour lecture on why Switzerland is not an offshore financial center?mostly because the term offshore is ill-defined and mildly pejorative, associated with a lack of regulation...
...improve the gene pool of Republicans in Congress" by electing more Reagan Republicans, says Club President Stephen Moore. Desperate to protect all their incumbents, House Republican leaders are privately furious with the genetic engineering plan. "The Club has lost track of Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - not to speak ill of fellow Republicans," gripes Main Street Executive Director Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. But even GOP presidents tend to ignore that commandment when it's convenient. President George W. Bush, for example, has broken it several times this year, taking sides in several GOP primaries...