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...away for anyone - even a computer - to calculate. In the grand-master commentary room, where chess's clerisy gather to analyze play, the experts did not even consider several of Carlsen's moves during his game with Kramnik until they saw them and realized they were perfect. "It's hard to explain," Carlsen says. "Sometimes a move just feels right...
...asylum in Switzerland found that a drug that tweaked the balance of the brain's neurotransmitters - the chemicals that control mood, pain and other sensations - sent patients into bouts of euphoria. For schizophrenics, of course, that only made their condition worse. But researchers soon realized it made their pill perfect for patients with depression. On first trying it in 1955, some patients found themselves newly sociable and energetic and called the drug a "miracle cure." The drug, called imipramine and marketed as Tofranil in 1958, was quickly followed by dozens of rivals - known as tricyclics for their three-ring chemical...
...Dosing cups and droppers aren't perfect answers for either adults or kids because level markers are not always clearly visible. Dreyer believes pictograms on packages can improve accuracy, showing just what 5 ml or any other proper quantity looks like in a cup or a syringe. One thing almost no one recommends is adding warnings to packages explicitly advising consumers against using spoons. "If at some time the dosing cap is missing, they may just instead drink off the bottle," says Duke University's Ruth Day. "That's the absolute worst...
...Meat and Obsession (Little, Brown; 307 pages), in which the Julie & Julia author tells the sad, sordid tale of the recent years she spent butchering pigs, cows and her husband's heart. Meanwhile, in a New York Times Magazine story, writer Elizabeth Weil detailed her efforts to subject her "perfect union" to every kind of therapeutic scrutiny available in Northern California. Her goal of complete marital introspection - needed or otherwise - inspired heated holiday-party conversations and terror at the thought of the memoir to follow, as well as giving single women everywhere a new appreciation of their unburdened ring fingers...
...Fatigue of War," showing bone-weary Marines dug in for the night in Afghanistan, broke my heart. In a perfect world, these brave young men would be in college, at a football game or laughing with friends over burgers and fries. Maybe next year. Tracy Leverton Vienna...