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Panelists--including W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree and a number of jazz experts and critics--explored the impact of jazz on American history and culture through the context of the documentary...
...doled out like candy doesn't mean they always sweeten things up. A survey finds that 70% of patients treated for depression by primary-care physicians think their medication doesn't fully alleviate their symptoms. And because of side effects such as reduced sex drive, one-fifth of patients skip doses and half stop taking the pills altogether. Among those who discussed side effects with their doctor, 20% said their complaints were ignored. If you're depressed, medication can help. If your doctor is not helping, find another...
...Friends--a scripted hit with actors who get more expensive with every contract--is the old-line antithesis of Survivor, a moneymaking machine with disposable stars and no writers. (Even its product placements may be a sign of TV's future, when digital video recorders could allow viewers to skip traditional commercials...
...matched to one of thousands of preset stations according to your preferences. You can do this five times in five different genres. It isn't exactly personal radio, because you're likely to be sharing each station with 10 or 20 other listeners, and you can't skip ahead or pause tracks. But here's the cool bit: your thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote on each artist here will affect the next day's playlist...
...late teens or early 20s. Over the years, its harrowing symptoms--hallucinations, persistent voices, paranoia and frozen emotions--have been blamed on everything from witchcraft to the evil eye. Now scientists realize that schizophrenia is a complex syndrome resulting from the failure of various neurotransmitters--the chemical messengers that skip from one nerve cell to the next--including dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine. "Certainly it's not caused by bad parenting," says Vinogradov. Knowing which neurotransmitters are implicated in the disease gives drugmakers precise targets around which to design better anti-schizophrenia compounds...