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...participant, a team of Sydney researchers announced that depression is most likely to strike a person who is genetically vulnerable to the condition and who experiences three or more unhappy or stressful events within one to five years. In most cases of depression, says team member Gordon Parker, the trigger is neither genes nor environment alone but "an exquisite nuance of their interaction...
...especially problematic should the research lead to wider use of antidepressants, shown to cause moderate to profound agitation in 7% of users. And will people need a dna test to find out their genetic vulnerability to depression? There is probably some personality marker for the high-risk genotype, says Parker. Despite a trawl of the data, however, "we haven't found it yet. We've looked at all varieties of anxiety and numerous personality styles," but at this stage without any luck...
...brought us four foulmouthed Colorado kids on South Park, spoofed the President in the sitcom That's My Bush! and annoyed Sean Penn with the movie Team America: World Police. Ahead of the March 22 start of South Park's 10th season on Comedy Central, Stone, 34, left, and Parker, 36, talked to TIME's James Poniewozik about celebs, politics and the innate badness of children...
...GUYS ARE FAMOUS FOR HANDING IN EPISODES AT THE LAST MINUTE. HAVE YOU EVEN STARTED SEASON 10? MATT STONE We just started about two days ago. TREY PARKER We're trying to work, but with no pressure we just aren't that funny...
DIED. DARREN MCGAVIN, 83, movie-set painter turned actor who played a streetwise crime reporter in the 1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the Old Man, Ralphie Parker's curmudgeonly dad, in the 1983 classic A Christmas Story; in Los Angeles. He won an Emmy in 1990 for playing the title character's father in Murphy Brown...