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...czar, a position that had been dormant for six years, tapping Mangano to be head of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. He is liked by members of both parties and fits Bush's theme of faith-based compassion. A former rock manager who represented members of Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mangano says his life changed in 1972 when he saw Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a movie about the life of St. Francis. For Mangano, who calls himself a homeless abolitionist, ending chronic homeless is a moral call. "Is there any manifestation of homelessness more...
...been making one-of-a-kind handcrafted toys, selling about 200 or 300 pieces a year at $100 each," says Kirk. His collectors were mostly Peter Pan--like adults. (Toy Story director John Lasseter has several.) Kirk decided to try to get into mass production and formed a company, Hoobert Toys. This did not go so well, financially. A couple of publishers made inquiries about whether he would like to do a book, "but Nicholas was the only one who offered to pay in advance," Kirk says. Nicholas is Nicholas Callaway, a publisher and packager of luxe books on photography...
...important brain chemical is that it affects everybody, not only depressives. According to Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Prozac on the Couch, if you were to go on the drug today, there's a good chance that you would feel better, even if you aren't depressed. Dr. Peter Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac, describes the effect as feeling "better than well...
...specter of schizophrenia returned with their third child, Peter. A happy, precocious youngster who learned to read in kindergarten, Peter focused less and less on school as he got older. It wasn't until after he joined the Air Force in 1985, however, that his life truly began to deteriorate. Peter remembers sitting next to another student in a training class and telling him about what seemed to him to be a wondrous, novel idea. "But then he just looked at me funny," Peter recalls. "He says to me, 'You aren't saying anything. You're just making noises...
...Peter started having delusions that interfered with his military duties. "I often thought I was being followed or that people were hiding in the trees waiting to come after me." Eventually, he says, his thoughts were disjointed most of the time. "I couldn't focus on anything." Finally, the Air Force court-martialed him for dereliction of duty, and he was given a less than honorable discharge. Still, neither he nor his parents were ready to accept the idea that he had a mental illness--although by then his grandmother's history was no longer a secret. "Maybe we were...