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...Park. These musicians rock, they're deep and they don't need foul language to get their point across. I totally love these guys and listen to their music at top volume whenever I get a chance, but sometimes my teenage son tells me to turn it down. DOMONIQUE KRENTZ White Salmon, Wash...
There is more than sour grapes in this charge, but less, perhaps, than the whole story. For romance writers labor under, and romance readers demand, a formula of childlike restrictions and simplicity. Here is how two romance authors, Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz, jointly define it: "The reader trusts the writer to create and re-create for her a vision of a fictional world that is free of moral ambiguity, a larger-than-life domain in which such ideals as courage, justice, honor, loyalty and love are challenged and upheld." Free of moral ambiguity? So much, then, for Homer...
Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Ore., felt her brain go on strike. "I just couldn't get going in the morning," she says. "I'd get depressed and gain 10 lbs. every winter and lose them again in the spring." Then she read about seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in autumn and winter, and she saw the light--literally. Every morning now she turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it's still enjoying those long summer...
...Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 million Americans suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there's never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights (10,000 lux, or 20 times as bright as your office lights) makes a difference. After all, it's hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That's why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo effects...
...fatal lapse came with five minutes left. After Yale's Susie Krentz and Sue Melone converted two Harvard turnovers into field goals, forward Lisa Brummel netted a stirring three-point play on a reverse lay-up for a 62-51 Bulldog lead...
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