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...physiologist Ethan Nadel and epidemiologist Loretta DiPietro, both of Yale University, have been pioneering a five-year study on the effects of exercise. The question at the heart of the effort is whether exercise can slow the effects of aging--and if so, which ones. "It is no secret that exercise is beneficial, but people age differently," says DiPietro. "The question we are asking is whether we can truly separate the decline that is a function of biological aging from the decline that is due simply to disuse...
...brain is finally giving up its secrets, and the biggest secret of all is that this 3-lb. maze of nerves and tissue is also a veritable laboratory of chemicals whose workings and interactions largely determine the state of our mental health, down to the latest mood swing. Many mental illnesses once thought to be purely psychological conditions--among them schizophrenia, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and ocd--turn out to be caused by specific chemical imbalances. Those who suffer from them are racked not by toilet-training traumas or the "unceasing terror and tension of the fetal night...
...breakthrough in OCD treatment came about in the late 1980s, when researchers discovered that a particular antidepressant, clomipramine hydrochloride (brand name: Anafranil), relieved obsessions and compulsions as no others did. The presumed secret of its success was its ability to inhibit the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain. A few years later, the advent of the ssri family made it even more obvious that obsessive-compulsive disorder was at least in part a serotonin problem. Some 75% to 80% of ocd patients today get substantial relief--sometimes complete remission--from one or another member of the SSRIS...
...Fresno on Bill Clinton's 28th trip to California as President, and he is jogging. Bleary reporters gaze as Clinton and his Secret Service detail shrink to dots, then gradually return from the far side of the Leaky Acres Groundwater Recharge Facility, where the President and his entourage can run undisturbed. Their path will take Clinton past a growing gaggle of children and teachers at the Viking Elementary School. They are shouting for the President to come by. But the jogging path and the schoolyard are separated by a chasm of tight security: two cyclone fences, a four-lane highway...
JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made a secret promise to President Clinton that Israel would return the entire Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, a prominent Israeli journalist said Wednesday. Rabin even kept the pledge secret from then-foreign minister Shimon Peres, Orly Azulai-Katz wrote in a new book about Peres, excerpts of which were printed in the Yediot Ahronot daily on Wednesday. Azulai-Katz says Peres was upset when he found out about the deal after he took office. "Look at what Rabin did to me, and people say I'm not trustworthy...