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...currently popular genetic model of mental disorder has much hearsay but little scientific evidence to support it. Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depression Has Varied Sources | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

...begin to deviate from that ever increasing line along about the early 1960's, reach a maximum in the mdi-1960's and as of today the total hydro-carbon emissions are on the decline and they're going to continue to become less and less as time goes along and will reach a minimum around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is it a Kandy-Kolored Streamline Baby Or a Safe, Non-Polluting Motor Vehicle? | 4/24/1970 | See Source »

Divorced. By Virginia Sinclair Mdivani, 48, daughter of the late Oil Tycoon Harry Sinclair: Prince David Mdi-vani, 63, Czarist emigre, last of the three "Marrying Mdivanis"; after 19 years of marriage, one son; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he harassed her continually); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 7, 1964 | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Harry's, most cosmopolitan bar and gossip-parlor in Venice, word was going round that "Prince" David, the last of the marrying Mdi-Vani's, had just become engaged to blonde Muriel ("Honey") Johnson of Bronxville, N. Y. The Countess Haugwitz Reventlow was once the wife of his brother "Prince" Alexis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Viva L'Amore! | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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