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Despite its promise, experts agree that hypericum should not be viewed as an off-the-shelf solution for depression, especially severe depression that prompts suicidal thoughts. Nor should it be casually ingested in hopes of relieving a milder state of the blues. As Dr. Stephen Barrett, a co-author of the American Medical Association's Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods, observes, "Most people with mild depression will do better with psychotherapy than with drugs. Therapy is generally more effective for these people in the long run than taking a pill--even if the pill works...
...mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
...victory . . . I'm satisfied that the resolution we reached in this case is fair," said Widnall. At a subsequent press conference, Flinn's mother said that the family was afraid the Air Force was trying to make an example of the pilot. While a general discharge is a much milder outcome than a dishonorable one, Flinn may never be allowed to fly for the Air Force again, including in the National Guard or military reserves, which Flinn had hoped to do. Still, Flinn seemed pleased with the decision; she left the courtroom afterward with a triumphant smile on her face...
Several motels and murders later, and in between cameos by such veteran outragers as Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins and Mink Stole, we notice the signposts. This is a milder Wild at Heart, the 1990 road movie that, like this one, Lynch wrote with novelist Barry Gifford...
...bolstering the immune system with the tools of gene therapy. In 1990 she left Gallo's lab to head the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Although it may take years, she believes that gene therapy--with its promise of cheaper drugs and milder side effects--could provide the best AIDS treatment...