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...still holding fairly steady with some mild improvements in some areas of student aid," he said...
...Even mild to moderate over-weight is associated with a substantial increase in risk of premature death," Manson said in a press release issued yesterday...
...have materialized off the west coast of Africa, six of which have grown into full-fledged hurricanes. The good news is that the damage to date--floods in the Carolinas, toppled trees and power lines in Central Florida, mud slides on the Caribbean island of Martinique--has been comparatively mild. The bad news is that more big storms are on their way, and before the end of November, when the season officially ends, one or two may yet slam into land with savage power...
...During mild mania, people with the illness are infused with energy and vision. They think faster, more clearly and with greater originality. "I could fly through star fields and slide along the rings of Saturn,'' writes Jamison of her episodes. Were it not for her disease, she says, "I would not have accomplished the same things." Nor, she maintains, would many famed artists...
Signs of trouble were present for Jamison from an early age. The daughter of an Air Force meteorologist and a teacher, she was mercurially moody as a child and became severely depressed as an adolescent. At 16 she felt the first intoxicating high of mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people...