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Krispy Kreme: $9.99 for a 1-lb. bag. The newcomer was the winner with most of our tasters, who praised the Mellow & Mild Smooth blend for its "solid, smooth taste" and "great smell." The dissenters complained of an aftertaste and wished for a bolder flavor...
Starbucks: $9.95. The mild house blend placed second with our tasters, who liked the "slightly tangy, full flavor...
TODAY'S TREATMENTS Electroshock therapy, despite its unsavory reputation, is actually quite effective, especially for patients who don't respond to drugs and seniors for whom drug interactions pose problems. The treatment today uses a small current to trigger a mild seizure--a rhythmic firing of neurons--that can push a depressed brain...
Meanwhile, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment, resets the electrical state of the brain by inducing a seizure. (Despite ECT's lurid reputation, it involves mild doses of current and can be almost miraculously successful in patients whose depression will not yield to drugs.) Even old-fashioned, low-tech talk therapy can help adjust a patient's brain chemistry and lessen the severity of depression, especially in conjunction with other treatments...
...illegal possession of a gun, which he said "will send a clear message that serious, violent offending will invariably be dealt with in the strongest manner." At the emotionally charged Brixton meeting, Clarence Thompson, who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean 40 years ago, said five years was too mild a punishment. "Give them life - if they carry a gun they mean to kill," he said to applause. For the government, the strength of public feeling on the subject is an uncomfortable reminder of an old promise unkept. In the early '90s, Tony Blair famously vowed that in power, Labour...