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After a few minutes, I soon met my co-contestants, went through make-up and, after many comments on my resemblance to actor Peter Gallagher, walked onto the set. I was immediately assailed by the art-deco-neon-overload-meets-industrial-constructi on set, complete with a live band, stacks of old books as props, local stand-up comic Greg Fitzsimmons as host, two attractive brunette "hostesses" (Heather and Shonda) in tight pastel blue outfits and a giant brain sitting in the center of the set. "`Jeopardy' on acid," I thought...
...reason to be cautious. Like all plants, hypericum contains a wide variety of compounds, including one that is known to cause sun sensitivity. Hypericum's effects in combination with other drugs are also cause for concern. Psychiatrists worry about the so-called serotonin syndrome, a kind of biochemical overload brought on by combining several antidepressants. Among the symptoms: nausea, slurred speech and muscle spasms...
...through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...
...large number of people, especially upon arriving at a campus as diverse as Harvard's, is overwhelmed by the realization of just how big the world is, and how many different ways there are of living and of seeing things. One of the natural reactions to this sensory overload is to draw back in fear, and to comfort oneself by assuming that one's way of living and thinking are the only proper ways, and that different lifestyles are in some way inferior...
...microchips in these devices often depend on electronic calendars and clocks. If you were a VCR and you suddenly thought it was 1900, you might overload just from the resulting identity crisis...