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...time Prozac (fluoxetine) swept onto the stage in 1988, the new drugs had wrought a revolution in psychiatry. Long-drawn-out talking cures were shortened or replaced by prescription pills, and some doctors found their offices filled with grateful patients. "All of a sudden, we were being told, 'Gee, doc, you're great,'" recalls Dr. Samuel Barondes, a psychiatrist and medical historian at the University of California, San Francisco. No one really understood how the wonder pills worked. Nor were they always free of distressing side effects--such as the "Thorazine shuffle," the stumbling, zombie-like gait that often accompanies...
...Crimson (8-7-1, 7-3-1) swept a pair of conference games a week ago, handing Union a 5-2 loss last Friday before breezing past then No. 12 RPI by the same score...
...Harvard swept Yale in last year's games, but its 70-68 overtime win in New Haven could not have been much closer. But with senior center Melissa Johnson relatively healthy and the added presence of the freshmen Tricia Tubridy and Hana Peljto inside, Harvard stands a good chance of dominanting the boards like it did in its 93-77 win over the Elis at Lavietes last season...
Ultimately, distance running carried the day for the Crimson. Led by freshman Alisdair McLean-Forman, the Crimson swept the top three spots in the 1,000-meter run. Senior Edward Baker won the mile, and then returned to action late in the meet to help the two-mile relay team collect the winning points...
When Vojislav Kostunica swept to the presidency in Serbia last fall in an orgy of street celebrations and political intrigue, Zoran Djindjic was largely out of sight. But last week Serbia's dynamic opposition leader returned to the stage as the country's first post-Milosevic Prime Minister. It's a crucial job. As Kostunica struggles to preserve the defunct Yugoslav federation of Serbia and Montenegro, Djindjic will have to jump-start the moribund economy and modernize the country, while selling the world on the idea of a new Serbia...