Word: lithium
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...main reasons is that at the urging of his second wife Janie, who was hoping to save their marriage, he began to see an Atlanta psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Pittman, in 1985. Pittman did two important things for Turner. The first was to put him on the drug lithium, which is generally used to treat manic-depression as well as a milder tendency toward mood swings known as a cyclothymic personality. Turner's colleagues and J.J. Ebaugh, the woman for whom he left Janie, suddenly saw an enormous change in his behavior. "Before, it was pretty scary to be around...
...same time, concern about the scope of President Saddam Hussein's nuclear program increased when U.N. officials disclosed that secret documents seized by an inspection team last month showed Iraq had produced small amounts of lithium-6, a chemical used only in hydrogen bombs. The substance was kept at the Al-Atheer weapons center 40 miles south of Baghdad, a facility virtually unscathed by the war. While a team of experts flew to Iraq to begin searching for evidence of a potential H-bomb, the U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution aimed at preventing Iraq from ever regaining a nuclear...
...culprit. Dan Quayle raises questions about the ancient plumbing at the Naval Observatory -- the official 100-year-old vice-presidential residence, which the Bushes occupied for eight years. Suspicion spreads to other sources of presidential water, which are tested for the presence of toxic levels of iodine or lithium...
Well-meaning advice to be sure, but utter nonsense. "They're not going to find anything in the water," says Dr. Lewis Braverman, chief of endocrinology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Lithium decreases the thyroid's output instead of increasing it. As for iodine, a person would have to consume at least 10 to 50 times the normal daily dosage in order to trigger hyperthyroidism. "It's sort of a feeding frenzy," says Dr. Charles Christian, physician in chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. "All the attention is pressuring the people taking care...
...stage the $250 million fireworks display, but they promise it will be well worth the price. During the next two weeks, a team of scientists is planning a dazzling light show as part of a project to study the earth's magnetic fields. Fourteen canisters containing barium and lithium will be released from a satellite orbiting as high as 20,000 miles above the earth, creating a display of luminous red, green and purple clouds over much of North and South America, the Atlantic and Western Europe. Scientists hope that by monitoring the movement of the clouds, they will improve...