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...idea that treating depression might lessen the severity of other diseases, though, makes basic biochemical sense. Everyday experience makes it clear that brain chemistry governs more than just the emotions. When your mind feels terror, the resulting surge of adrenaline makes your stomach churn. When your mind is sexually aroused, the body responds in unmistakable fashion. The effect is even more direct with the 60 or so chemicals known as neurotransmitters, which signal one cell that its neighbor has just sparked and that it should pass along the message. Brain chemicals such as serotonin circulate everywhere, not only...
Students involved in Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) programs said the discount will lessen the financial burden of transportation on their volunteers next semester...
While Carr said the revised plans will not lessen the quality of his work—“because we produce edgy and experimental theater and it works well in a smaller auditorium”—others are more concerned...
These problems are only the latest episode in the fitful computerization of Harvard’s bureaucracy. Nevertheless, the University’s Office of Human Resources and the Student Employment Office (SEO) should have made a better effort to fix these problems and lessen the burden on students who have had to put off purchasing books or paying bills. The SEO and the department of human resources have begun to address the problems, but these efforts are both too weak and too late...
...liberation of the Iraqi people, then why aren't those who want war speaking up for the other oppressed peoples of the world? The main U.S. objective is to install a friendly, puppet-like regime (probably not a democratic one, considering Iraq's past) that will greatly lessen U.S. dependence on Saudi oil and allow the U.S. to pressure Riyadh on its record of exporting terrorists. GORM BJORHOVDE Tromso, Norway...