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...study, sponsored by Pfizer (maker of both the antidepressant heavyweight Zoloft and herbal supplements) and the National Institutes of Mental Health, included 200 patents who took either St. John's Wort or a placebo pill for eight weeks each. The patients who took the herb showed very little or no improvement in their depression - the same results as the patients taking the placebo...
Also, eight billion recovered barrels would be the equivalent of our entire domestic use of oil for well over a year, not just six months. Important to note, though, is that no policy-maker has argued that we should open ANWR to development and then become independent of the use of foreign oil. Rather, the oil produced would be used to supplement our imports for the next 20 years...
...company is intensely scrutinized. "Whenever we do something good, it's a little bit of news," he says with a sigh. "Whenever we do something bad, it's all over the place." But Dell is still widely regarded as a good employer, a solid corporate citizen and a millionaire maker. It's unlikely a single round of job cuts will change that...
...Bohème is a four-act opera in which six poverty-stricken artists struggle to find success amidst their bohemian lifestyles. Rodolfo, a poet (Robert Grady) falls in love with a silk flower-maker, Mimi (Susan Brownfield) who is fatally ill. As the opera progresses, Rodolfo and Mimi realize that their relationship cannot last—Rodolfo can not stand by and watch helplessly as Mimi’s consumption steals her away from him. In the end, although Rodolfo and his friends give their most prized possessions, this is not enough to save Mimi’s life...
...vice president Jeff Skoll, who commands a $2.1 billion net worth, pared his contributions from $47.5 million in 1999 to a still hefty $39 million in 2000. The cutbacks came as eBay's stock lost more than 70% of its value last year. At Kana Communications, a troubled software maker whose shares have fallen more than 98% from their 52-week high, the $1 million worth of stock that vice president Michael Wolfe pledged to Stanford a year ago nearly evaporated. By the time the school received and sold the stock, its value had fallen to $100,000--enough...