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...Zhen scanned her husband's face for signs of trouble as he descended from the prison bus. He'd seemed nervous lately and had complained of threats against him. But now hope had surfaced once again. After repeated denials, prison authorities in Harbin, near the Russian border, had announced that Fan's husband, Zhu Shengwen, would be home by the Lunar New Year, granted medical parole after seven years in jail. All that remained were some medical exams that Zhu, who suffered from hypertension, was scheduled to undergo on the afternoon of Dec. 29, the day of Fan's visit...
...discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a dairy cow in the U.S. [Jan. 12]. Mad-cow disease? They should call it mad-human disease! Only we humans would make a cannibal out of a vegetarian animal by feeding it contaminated meat-and-bone meal, exposing it to a horrible nervous disorder and then be mainly concerned with our inability to eat it. Which species, I ask, is mad? Lakshmi Jackman Austin...
...Through the 1990s, Bristol-Myers Squibb marketed its antidepressant, Serzone (its chemical name: nefazodone), with ever growing success. In a typical earnings announcement released in July 1996, Bristol-Myers, which had revenue of $19.9 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2003, declared that "sales of central-nervous-system drugs rose, particularly on the strength of STADOL NS, an antimigraine product, and Serzone, an antidepressant treatment with a low incidence of side effects." The next year, medical studies were released claiming "Serzone to be superior to Prozac in increasing sleep efficiency and providing better sleep quality for people suffering...
...very nervous,” Broadbent said. “I was a little tentative, and then I started settling down...
...students said Ritalin and Adderall are useful to students who need to study for long periods of time because they stimulate the nervous system...