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...psychiatrist for 30 years and director of the Black Dog Institute, a not-for-profit research, educational and clinical body specializing in mood disorders. "We see depressed people who've been undertreated and others whose illness is not quintessentially biological," yet their treatment has amounted to "the relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional 1% or fewer show psychotic symptoms. "In my view a serotonergic reaction is a true phenomenon," he says...
Like most obsessive golfers, Paul McNeill occasionally ponders the game's standard frustrations--the blown putts, the sliced drives into the rough--and questions his devotion to such a maddening pursuit. But as a regular at Kabul's only golf course, McNeill puts up with some extra hazards that would test the mettle of Tiger Woods. The grassless fairways of rock and stubble are cratered by rocket shells. The greens are in fact brown, a mix of oil and dirt with the consistency of quicksand. Approach shots are complicated by the possibility that insurgents have planted land mines...
...also felt the need to prove that Latino marketing was a worthwhile pursuit. "It was hard to prove my case and point. There was no past history" at the bank of targeting Hispanic customers, she says. Castro de Cortes made her case by talking about potential profits to be made from the growing Latino market. "All of a sudden, things changed," she says. "They saw what my area of expertise could do for them. I had the numbers and the potential money to be made. That always, always did the trick...
...little biased. “It was the best because it had everything the other houses had and more,” including sushi (one of Yuan’s favorites) and monkey bread—whatever that is. What was the inspiration for Yuan’s satiating pursuit? According to her, the idea sprang up when she was discussing Open Houses with a friend from Lowell, who then invited Yuan to the next Lowell Open House. “I was curious about other Open Houses because ours was so good,” she said...
Despite the strength of both its returning swimmers and newcomers, the Harvard men know that their Ivy League foes will be in hot pursuit of the EISL title currently in Crimson possession. Princeton, which last claimed the EISL crown in 2004, finished second to the Crimson in last year’s EISL meet...