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Less severe depression is more prevalant among the 18-22 age bracket, but Davis says depression among college students is often a root malady connected to other mental illnesses such as anorexia nervosa or bi-polar manic depression...
...years Grove enforced that narrow margin with a quick, violent temper--the polar opposite of his mentor, Moore. New employees at Intel suspected it was a management trick: Andy getting mad to get results. What they discovered was that the anger was real. Grove had an internal code of excellence, and when someone didn't live up to it, he hammered him. In 1984 FORTUNE named him one of America's toughest bosses. Sometimes even he recognized that he had gone too far. "After I cooled down, I apologized," he wrote of one '80s encounter that had him bellowing...
Though the issue is still controversial, many scientists believe that a documented rise in carbon dioxide levels worldwide has caused large-scale climate changes. If the trend continues, it could lead to environmental problems such as the melting of polar ice caps and a rise in ocean levels across the globe...
...Greene, the greatest achievement of the snake is how well it has adapted to its varied environments. Like sharks, which have a similar image problem, snakes occupy almost every available ecological niche except the polar regions, from rain forests to deserts to the sea. Probably descended from nearly limbless lizards that lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their...
...sparkling, in fact, gives rise to the sun's periodic magnetic storms, an activity that reaches a peak with the 11-year polar shifts. Huge pockets of gases form on the sun's surface, accompanied by sunspots, solar flares and great eruptions of gas. While this phenomenon has seemed to be limited to the sun's surface, the new probing shows that the magnetic storms are apparently stirred up by the shearing action of the winds as they press past slower moving gases, just as the eruptions of volcanoes on Earth are produced by the pressures created by motions...