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...live through the ordeal and pass that trait on to trillions of descendants, a rapid example of evolution through natural selection. Just as predation by lions has gradually increased the swiftness of gazelles, the use of antibiotics has spurred the emergence of bacteria that can effectively counter those potent poisons. But bacteria multiply so quickly that they evolve much faster than gazelles...
...California pretty,/ I can't survive the Great White Way," sings WAYLON JENNINGS in Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn...
...meaning, as well, at a time when people are worried that they will not be able to educate their children, give medical aid to their parents or support themselves in retirement. The economy, which has devastated black families, threatens white ones too. The "no new taxes" cry was potent when enough of the electorate felt satisfied with what it had and wanted to give no more to the government. But when basic services are in question, people remember that the government is still good for something. That is a point the Republicans have been denying for over a decade. Ronald...
Desperate, Cavett checked into a hospital, where for five weeks he was protected from himself while a seemingly mild but potent drug called an MAO inhibitor took effect. Such antidepressants cause subtle changes in the concentrations of certain neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry electrical messages to and from nerve cells in the brain. The medication, which he still takes on a maintenance dose in conjunction with psychotherapy, worked. His wit, humor and facility for words returned, good as new. And Cavvett came away from the experience with a conviction that his disorder was, as he puts it, "absolutely chemical...
Five years later, scientists found out why. Iproniazid falls into the category of antidepressant medications known as MAO inhibitors, which work by blocking the breakdown of two potent neurotransmitters -- norepinephrine and serotonin -- and allowing them to bathe the nerve endings for an extended length of time. A second category of antidepressants, the tricyclics (so named for their triple-carbon-ring structure), raises the level of these neurotransmitters in the brain by slowing the rate at which they are reabsorbed by nerve cells. The third and newest category of medications, represented by the popular Prozac and a number of other drugs...