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Depression comes in many flavors, from seasonal depressions that come and go with the short days of winter to low-level chronic depressions that linger for months. Among the symptoms of clinical depression are weight loss, early waking, diminished sex drive and a general hopelessness. But some people have what are called atypical depressions in which they put on weight and sleep much...
Fatty fish like salmon, bluefish and herring are vulnerable to another kind of contaminant: chlorinated compounds such as PCBs, dioxins and DDT, which once consumed linger in the body for years. The Consumers Union found detectable levels of PCBs, which have been linked to cancer and developmental disorders, in 43% of its salmon samples and 25% of examined swordfish. The PCBs were generally within the federal tolerance limit, but consumer groups have questioned whether that standard is adequate. Chlorinated compounds are lipophilic, or fat-loving; absorbed through the skin and gills, they concentrate in a fish's fatty tissue. "Very...
...South Central Los Angeles to lapse into a violent state of anarchy. Four hours -- half a normal patrol shift -- was all the time needed for the Los Angeles Police Department to cede temporary control of the streets to looters and arsonists. Even as the faint traces of smoke still linger in the air, the L.A. riots have begun their transformation from grisly reality to political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton on down...
...their handlers have toured Los Angeles, and they agree on almost nothing, except the fact that the events there will dominate this year's battle for the White House. In their critiques and responses so far -- embryonic and still evolving -- the campaign to define the images they hope will linger is under way with a vengeance...
...even today the link between Australia and its Asian neighbors is tenuous. Canberra discarded its whites-only immigration policy in 1976, but decades of Australian xenophobia linger in Asian memories. On Hong Kong and Malaysian television, Australia is often portrayed as a racist country. Australians, on the other hand, are still prey to what Governor-General Bill Hayden, the Queen's representative in the federal government, recently called "Orientalist fantasies," timeworn images of exotic, erotic and despotic Asians. Even after the cultural and economic transformations of the past decade, Australia differs radically from its neighbors in language, law, religion, concepts...