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...would anyone want to generate tiny electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...
Sunday, March 13. Harvard Organ Society presents Bradley Welch in its E. Power Biggs Series. 7:30 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. $15, students and Harvard affiliates $10. Tickets available through Harvard Box Office...
...teachers at an English boarding school in the late 1960s constantly tell the children that they are "special." Only trouble is, "special" has a very special meaning at this particular school. The children are, in fact, clones, genetically engineered for a sinister purpose - to serve as organ donors. Sounds like the perfect setup for a kids-on-the-run sci-fi thriller. But Ishiguro's characters don't do rebellion. This writer is fascinated by people simply making the best of their fates. So there are no chases through woods, no baying bloodhounds. Instead, the book takes on a cool...
Thursday, March 10. Harvard Organ Society Recital. 12:15 p.m., Adolphus-Busch Hall. $15 regular tickets; $10 students and seniors; $5 Organ Society Members. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...DIED. RAYMOND MHLABA, 85, member of the African National Congress and for 26 years a political prisoner on South Africa's infamous Robben Island; in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mhlaba was one of four members of the prison's "High Organ," which negotiated with the apartheid government for better conditions and the release of political prisoners. Freed in 1989, he went on to serve as a regional official and as High Commissioner to Uganda and Rwanda. Upon Mhlaba's death, Mandela called him "one of the real stalwarts of our movement, a person...