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...Americans grew fond of the idea that you can fix depression simply by taking a pill - most famously fluoxetine (better known as Prozac), though fluoxetine is just one of at least seven selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that have been prescribed to treat hundreds of millions of people around the world...
...three of her children to be afflicted with autism spectrum disorders. There's no family history of autism, she says. "You always ask yourself, Is it me? Is it him [her ex-husband]? I had my kids late - in my mid-30s. Was I on the birth control pill too long? I never did drugs. I don't smoke. I can't figure out why this would happen to us. That's why I wanted to do the genetic testing...
...demanded rollbacks could reduce wages and benefits, presently pegged at $29 per hour, by $6 to $8 per hour. "There is no doubt these are very serious cuts and they're being made under very tight deadlines and under very serious pressure," Shaiken says. "That will be a bitter pill on either side of the border," he says. Neither Chrysler nor Fiat has made its demands public...
...very uncomfortable in Australia," he says. After he successfully campaigned to make voluntary euthanasia legal in Australia's Northern Territory in July 1996, the law was overturned by Australia's senate eight months later, after four people took their lives. Since then, the government has banned Nitschke's Peaceful Pill handbook, and legislation is currently passing through the parliament that would make it illegal to distribute information about assisted suicide via e-mail and the Internet. Britain's House of Lords is also reviewing legislation that would make it illegal to promote suicide via the Internet...
...film and promptly gets rolled by her in contract negotiations, is as sharp and modulated a satire of Hollywood hucksterism as anything this side of David Mamet. Unfortunately, the play doesn't quite know where to go after that. The focus shifts to Sheena's surly, pill-popping, wheelchair-bound mother, who is outraged (not very credibly) at her daughter's job on feminist grounds and vows to stop the production. Not a bad idea - turning Mom into a real-life counterpart of a horror-film stalker - but her character (at least in Lusia Strus's over-the-top performance...