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BRAIN FOOD It may sound implausible, but researchers think a type of fat in fish--known as omega-3 fatty acids--could help people with manic depression. A preliminary report shows that patients who for four months took daily pills containing 10,000 mg of omega-3s (that's about five salmon steaks' worth) were twice as likely to go into remission as those on a placebo...
...respectively playing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon, "swim" into an underwater metropolis at the start of the movie, one feels a tinge of wonder, but it is immediately muddled by over-done special effects. Often, the music is off (John Williams' score seems affixed, chopped up by Lucas' manic pace). And of course, one expects a lot from a Star Wars...
...CINE MANIC...
...complicated, fungible nature of the pain they experienced and still experience. Dr. Coley sees factors as abstract as "the amount of control someone has over their work situation" contributing to cases of chronic injury. Perhaps, therefore, micro-breaks and wrist stretches are not enough. In an environment as manic as Harvard, maybe there is something more than mechanical to RSIs. "I hadn t ever heard of [RSI] before I developed it." Suleiman recalls. "All of a sudden people started talking about it and it literally became kind of trendy, except that it was real also, it was all so real...
...takes a lot to catch a busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia...