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Experts who work with the mentally ill are especially concerned about the misinformation spread by the jokes and casual use of medical terms. When TIME uses the word schizophrenic to describe internal conflict within the Republican Party, the metaphor perpetuates a misunderstanding, as does a New York Times article describing the hyena's laughlike calls as "psychotic in pitch." Schizophrenia, a brain disorder whose symptoms can include hearing voices, has nothing to do with multiple or "split" personalities. Psychotic refers to a period of severe, treatable and often terrifying disorientation...
...spread the pain as evenly as possible, Clinton is focusing on the so- called broad-based energy taxes that would hit producers and big customers like public utilities. Such proposals include a levy on the carbon content of each fuel and an ad valorem -- or sales -- tax on the wholesale price of energy. The front runner is a tax that would be levied on the amount of heat produced by a fuel, as measured in British thermal units. This BTU tax would achieve more pollution control than a straight sales tax and would be less draconian than a carbon levy...
With the University as spread out as it is and with the natural segregation imposed by the house system, it is rare when Harvard students can show their school spirit. The lack of such spirit has occasionally been the topic of articles in The Crimson. This is why it is so disturbing that when we finally do come together in the name of Fair Harvard, writers like Mayo must bring us down with his amateurish opinions...
...strain of E. coli bacteria first identified 10 years ago. Somehow the germs infected a shipment of hamburger meat, which was then undercooked in restaurant kitchens. Two children died, only one of whom had eaten at Jack in the Box. This suggested that the bacteria could in some cases spread to people who did not visit the chain...
Ronald Sanders, 50, of Bakersfield, came down with valley fever in 1988. It spread into his brain membranes, causing a stroke. Today, although his paralysis is gone, he is still fighting the disease. Every Friday, Sanders has to go to his doctor's office for a cisternal tap, in which spinal fluid is removed, tested and mixed with amphotericin B for reinjection. There is no end in sight to the painful procedure...