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Similar misdiagnoses are made when parents and doctors observe symptoms of the low phase of the bipolar cycle and conclude that a kid is suffering from simple depression. Treat such a child with antidepressants like Prozac, however, and the rejiggering of brain chemistry may trigger mania. Some researchers believe that nearly half of all children thought to be depressed may really be bipolar...
...Thug chic has come to movies in the extravagantly buff and tattooed torso of Vin Diesel. Looking like the spawn of Otto Preminger and Mike Myers' Dr. Evil, Diesel went from 0 to 60 in last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports...
...founder of Wham-O, the toy giant that brought baby boomers the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee and the SuperBall; of Alzheimer's disease; in Costa Mesa, Calif. After a friend showed Melin and his partner a rattan hoop popular in Australia, Wham-O introduced a plastic version in 1958. Mania over the Hula Hoop was ferocious but short lived; it cost Wham-O, which at one point made 20,000 a day, $10,000 in losses that year...
...STARTED A more personal--or is it more narcissistic?--spin-off of the logo mania that peaked in the late 1990s...
...first time a court has overturned a Commission anti-trust decision, and it comes while several larger appeals are pending - including the thwarted takeover of Honeywell by General Electric and the merger of WorldCom and Sprint. It may be too early to declare a new outbreak of merger mania, but companies with an eye on European assets will certainly be dusting off their courting clothes. THE BOURSE Name With Legs Can you get too much brand recognition? Sony must think so. It sued Austrian wholesaler Time Tron for using "Walkman" to describe rival products, but Austria's top court ruled...