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...also quite addictive. "Xanax is extremely potent," says Dr. Steven Juergens of Virginia Mason University, who was the first to write about Xanax addiction, in 1988. "It acts quickly on the brain and has a short half-life." Users of such drugs tend to come back for more and more. Xanax is also used by partygoers as a "parachute" drug to bring them down from the effects of stimulants such as ecstasy. It's this combination of drugs, suggests Dr. Herbert Kleber, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, that may account for the current interest in Xanax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did She Want With Xanax? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...started the weekend after Tuesday the eleventh. The Small Press Expo, a convention for independent publishers, had been scheduled to convene in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. When it got cancelled a lot of very expressive people were left with free time and lousy feelings. Jeff Mason, publisher of Alternative Comics, began organizing a benefit book which quickly grew into trade-paperback length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Serious Comix Ever | 1/29/2002 | See Source »

Relying on pleasure as a standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers: SEEKING ART'S PLEASURES: Where You Find Them | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Perry Mason School of Law Enforcement, where you get them in there and they confess," former FBI assistant director Kenneth P. Walton, who established the first Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City told the Washington Post. "Well, it just doesn't work that way. You say, 'Tell me everything you know,' and they give you the recipe to Mom's chicken soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds and Cops At Odds Over Terror Investigation | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...presented the Bundesverdienst-kreuz, or Cross of the Order of Merit, to Abigail Collins, an associate director of the de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES); and to Christoph Wolff, Mason Professor of Music...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Pres. Visits Harvard, Bestows Awards | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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