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Still, the message out of the bottle was clear: Forget the couch; there is no psychiatric ill that cannot be chemically controlled. Even hyperactive youngsters were caught up in the pharmacological whirlwind, given daily doses of Ritalin to tame their excess energies. Critics such as Dr. Thomas Szacz worried loudly about an overly medicated, drug-dependent society. But with more than 50 million Americans suffering from mental illnesses of varying degrees of severity, doctors in the clinical trenches felt they had no choice but to employ the best weapons at their disposal. Says Dr. Sophia Vinogradov, Barondes' UCSF colleague...
...first problem is the name. Just as Fox aimed below the lowest common denominator with the concept of its new reality show, then chickened out and raised it - testing the relationships of unmarried rather than married folks - it also went with a too-tame title. "Temptation Island"? That's an Aaron Spelling show from the '70s. That's an amusement park ride. "Whore Lagoon" or "Isle of the Sluts" - now there's a show I want to watch...
Take the economy. Everyone knows it's slowing and that corporate profits will fade in tandem. Bad news for stocks, right? But wait. With inflation tame, the Federal Reserve has room to lower interest rates, prevent a recession and kick off another bounteous period of accelerating growth...
...Cancilla tossed peanuts to the nearly tame squirrels, he mused how citizens would not exercise their democratic rights...
Although perhaps racy for someone called Missy, those sins sound tame compared with recent reports that nearly one-third of teens have sex by age 15, and that the second leading cause of death among 15- to 19-year-olds is being murdered with...