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...committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, and it may be about America, or it may be about Thompson--by the end you don't really distinguish between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: HUNTER S. THOMPSON | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

...counter drugs, rubbing alcohol, fertilizers and other chemicals with recipes found on the Internet. Although an estimated three-quarters of the meth used in the U.S. is smuggled in by Mexican gangs, more than 8,500 domestic labs were raided last year. The drug, when abused, can lead to paranoia and violent outbursts. Three Oklahoma state troopers have been killed in meth-related cases since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold-Pill Crackdown | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

Such is the divide in Iraq on the eve of its ready-or-not plunge into democracy: heady optimism on one street, jittery paranoia down another. In a country roiled by insurgency and sectarian tensions, occupied by a foreign army and populated by citizens largely unfamiliar with the democratic process, this is a time of profound uncertainty. The U.S. and the interim Iraqi government are hopeful that at least half the country's 15 million eligible voters will take part in the election, but no one can predict with any certainty what the turnout will be, especially among the disaffected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Iraq Rule Itself? | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...most of its history, psychology had concerned itself with all that ails the human mind: anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions. The goal of practitioners was to bring patients from a negative, ailing state to a neutral normal, or, as University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman puts it, "from a minus five to a zero." It was Seligman who had summoned the others to Akumal that New Year's Day in 1998--his first day as president of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.)--to share a vision of a new goal for psychology. "I realized that my profession was half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Happiness | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...health from dioxin poisoning. And, most ominously, a top Yushchenko aide told Time, some people close to him fear that those who almost killed the candidate last fall may try again. There's even talk among Yushchenko's aides - though it may be nothing more than healthy paranoia - that the would-be assassin could be a traitor inside the President-elect's camp. So maybe it's no surprise that as the postelection euphoria subsides, even some close to the President-elect are worried about the challenges facing him. Does Viktor Yushchenko have what it takes? How pro-Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is This Viktor? | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

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