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Similar misdiagnoses are made when parents and doctors observe symptoms of the low phase of the bipolar cycle and conclude that a kid is suffering from simple depression. Treat such a child with antidepressants like Prozac, however, and the rejiggering of brain chemistry may trigger mania. Some researchers believe that nearly half of all children thought to be depressed may really be bipolar...
...looking to try something different at this point in their lives, Jones notes. And the inspiration of Steve Fossett's recent round-the-world balloon flight at age 58 hasn't hurt. "Ballooning is a sport that takes time, patience and some money, which works well when the kids are grown up and out of the house," says Jones. "I'm 37, and I feel like a kid when I'm around most balloonists...
...electroshock and aversion therapy to "cure" his homosexuality. (He is now out and heads an organization for gay Christians.) When White was 11, he found a tape of his parents discussing his father's sexuality with psychologists and asked his father about it. "He was such a sneaky little kid," Mel remembers. "We always had a motto in the family: we wouldn't answer questions that weren't asked, but we would always answer honestly questions that were...
...heroes. Still, one wonders if the abduction reports are a runaway habit whose internal momentum can get the best of reporters and editors, flattening all else that lies before it: stories of war and preparations for war, of corruption among the ?lites, of floods and droughts. What, no kidnapped kids today? Well, find some! That they're far too easy to find is undeniable. Still, there are other children in danger's path - harmed and neglected in a thousand ways that don't offer melodramatic storylines or a chance for TV viewers to play detective - whose photos will never...
...commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black man, why couldn't a white kid who played like a black...