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Regardless of its form, we hope that a multicultural student center would provide ethnic organizations with a central meeting space as well as a locus of information and social interaction, while facilitating the increase of cultural awareness on our campus...
...Jack Gorman, a Columbia University psychiatrist. But whatever the cause, the brain of a person who suffers from it is different from that of someone who does not. Stimulation studies using the drug yohimbine have revealed an abnormal firing rate in an area of the brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful for fleeing man-eating tigers and such. But in patients with panic disorder, it appears to kick...
...went at Kessler. Some days fear, some peace, some resentment. He had started out at Kessler "with a kind of arrogance and denial," but then began to accept the institute as the locus of his recovery. A nurse named Patty forced him to read a manual on spinal-cord injuries (he had refused at first). He read about the effect of paralysis on respiratory problems, on bowels. He read about sexual activity. He read about the dangers to which he was prone, like dysreflexia, a condition most commonly resulting from a clogged bowel or urinary tract, which the patient cannot...
...paperback margins to its Big Money mainstream. The number of sci-fi titles has more than doubled since the early '70s, from fewer than 1,000 titles a year to 2,000, with a remarkable third appearing first in hard cover, according to Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus, the trade magazine and industry bible...
Although I hail from the Boston area, deemed by many to be a locus of patriotism, I have never considered myself a true patriot, despite my Yankee education and the best attempts of my teachers to imbue me with national fervor via cardboard turkeys and pilgrim hats...