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...first nothing happened. My mood stayed bright. I slept. I concluded that I had a soul after all and that my moods weren't merely molecular. Then the inevitable slippage started. With plottable predictability, as if my brain were a slowly draining beaker, my sense of well-being sank and sank until I felt lower and darker than ever before. I went back to a doctor--a specialist this time--and asked flat out for Prozac, by then the subject of books and articles. One week later I felt fully restored and resigned myself to a humbling new self-image...
...months after the disappearance of Einhorn's blond and wispy, tragically beautiful 30-year-old lover, Philadelphia police climbed the stairs to his shabby second-floor apartment. In a steamer trunk no more than a few feet from the bed where Einhorn slept, homicide detective Michael Chitwood found the mummified body of his girlfriend. Holly Maddux's skull had been fractured in six or more places under the angry force of a blunt object. Chitwood, now the police chief in Portland, Maine, remembers the dialogue to this day: "I turned to Einhorn and said, 'It looks like we found Holly...
...watch. And, like the perennial Harvard problem, it spawns new and innovative solutions. I suppose I could adapt my standard response to "How'd you get into Harvard?" for use at the Journal. Next time people ask me how I got the job, I'll just say I slept with the editor...
...billion-a-year electric-power industry slept for decades under a cozy blanket of cost-plus-profit income streams and fat dividends that seemed to promise payouts forever. The status quo is about to get a jolt from, among others, John W. Rowe, 52, president and CEO of New England Electric System of Westborough, Mass. NEES is New England's second largest power utility, with $2.3 billion in 1996 revenues and 5,000 employees. Under Rowe, the utility has become a leader in allowing consumers to shop around for electric power the same way they shop for long-distance telephone...
...when we moved to Walton-on-Thames, where they had just invented some kind of steel table," Albright told Time Magazine. "They said if your house was bombed and you were under the table, you would survive. We had this table, and we ate on the table and we slept under the table and we played around the table...