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...have hypothyroidism, a drug called thyroxine can boost your hormone levels. Dr. Mark Helfand, an internist at the Veterans Medical Center in Portland, Ore., and a co-author of the new guidelines, says those who take the drug will "need it the rest of their life, and should be monitored every six months or so to make sure they don't get too much...
...love being a woman. We are courageous and emotionally wealthy," Patsy Clairmont declares. The silver-haired author of Normal Is Just a Setting on Your Dryer is framed by four overhead TV screens as she roams a circular stage of the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Ore., one of a series of speakers commanding the attention of the 12,000 women gathered there. She stops abruptly and pulls hundreds of rubber bands out of a bag, an embarrassment of riches meant to represent the psychic entanglement she has had to deal with. "This is me," she says. "All of me." Agoraphobia...
...blue-collar bungalows of this lush valley 110 miles south of Portland, all the grownups could talk about was what nurturing, sensible parents Faith and Bill Kinkel had been. All the kids could talk about was how "Kip" Kinkel liked to torture animals, collect guns, build small pipe bombs and joke about killing people...
...Internet service account unearthed by the Portland Oregonian, Kinkel logs on as "Kipper" and, in what seems almost a parody of adolescent rebellion, lists his hobbies as "role-playing games, heavy-metal music, violent cartoons/TV, sugared cereal, throwing rocks at cars." His occupation: "Student, surfing the Web for info on how to build bombs." The result is nothing to laugh at; when police searched the family house, they found five homemade bombs (two with electronic timing devices) in a crawl space under the house, along with at least 15 other explosive devices, including a hand grenade, two 155-mm howitzer...
...outside party until all their personal and financial battles are over. This system could put abusers in the spotlight and keep them away from children. Meanwhile, the only course of action for people like Shah's ex-wife and her children will be to go underground. REBECCA ASHLING Portland...