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Through Mr. Condon, negotiations progressed satisfactorily to Col. Lindbergh up to the time that "Jafsie" turned over $50,000 to the supposed kidnapping representative. The man informed him that the baby was safe aboard a boat moored off Gayhead. at the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard. Two trips to that locality convinced Col. Lindbergh that his child was not there. It was then that the serial numbers of the 5,150 bills, in $5, $10 and $20 denominations, which made up the ransom were broadcast through the Treasury Department. In Greenwich, Conn., New York City and, last week...
...Martha, a mother of two from Connecticut, has suffered from depression for the better part of two decades. She has been to psychiatrists and psychologists and tried dozens of medications, but nothing seemed to work very well or for very long. Then last June she heard about an experimental treatment being tested at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. It involved aiming a powerful magnet at a spot on the brain to reset the wayward neural circuits that keep Martha, and millions like her, stuck in the downward spiral of depression...
Figuring she had little to lose, Martha agreed to the treatment and soon found herself sitting in a chair under a squat, gray crescent that administered a series of magnetic pulses to the top of her head. The treatment lasted for one hour, five times a week, for six weeks. "I started to see signs of change by about the third week," she says. "By September, I was on top again. I could take pleasure in things like food and sunshine." Returning to the institute every once in a while for repeat sessions of what researchers call repetitive transcranial magnetic...
These scientists are the first to admit that they are treating a dizzyingly complex organ--the human brain--with not much more than educated guesswork. But when you hear the gratitude in Martha's voice as she talks about what it's like to get her life back after so many years of deep depression, it seems a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Alice Park/ New York...
After all of the Enrons, Arthur Andersons, and Martha Stewarts, it is no surprise the American public has little faith in the business world. And a big part of the problem with all of these recent scandals is that business leaders try to bend the rules and find shades of gray where there should be only black and white. They try to excuse their actions by saying that in some “technical” sense they did nothing wrong when their actions were clearly unethical and devious...