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...colleagues reported in a recent issue of the journal Science, a 150-year-old coral from the Seychelles Islands perfectly preserves both sets of fluctuations. One pattern tracks the El Nino fluctuations, swinging back and forth every few years; the other rises and falls on a 12-year schedule that closely follows India's official monsoon-rainfall index...
...most benign stage of bipolar depression is hypomania, a sustained high that brings great creativity, grandiosity, energy and insomnia, punctuated by short bouts of depression. Julie Moore, a psychiatrist who examined LeTourneau at length for the defense, believes this pattern describes the acclaimed teacher who, while rearing four young kids, routinely pulled all-nighters to devise projects for her elementary school students...
...mandating her sentence and therapy during a hearing, the court treated her as a sex offender. But she didn't fit the pattern. The typical sex offender is a predator who becomes active in his late teens and strikes victim after victim. LeTourneau's record was clean. Moore and others who examined LeTourneau believed she committed a sex crime because of delusions occasioned by the illness--a distinction with important implications for her therapy. It was late fall before LeTourneau's doctors were able to persuade her jailers to give her a drug called Depakote, to which...
Chiming every 15 minutes in the sing-song pattern of church bells worldwide, we at Dartboard were at first reminded of sitting on European plazas on summer days, far from work...
...powered through a dramatic, elegant program set to Rachmaninoff, and this time there were no slips. Lipinski followed suit, delivering a clean short program. She couldn't hide her disappointment when the marks appeared. The technical scores, usually her highest, included a 5.5 out of a perfect 6.0. The pattern has continued in Lipinski's other competitions this season. On several jumps, judges have noted some flaws in her technique that have cost her points. Lipinski's coach, Richard Callaghan, believes his skater is being scrutinized more carefully because she is the current world champion. Lipinski admits to being "puzzled...