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...that confirmed their drugs' effectiveness after they were out on the market. The FDA held up its side of the bargain by approving two new antiviral drugs -- ddC and d4T -- but the follow-up studies have been delayed. Even so, it has since become clear that the treatments can trigger severe side effects. As a result, no one really knows if the drugs are worth the risk...
Using eight case studies, Slaby focuses on the severe depression that can trigger a teenager's suicide, especially its less obvious indicators. The deepening silence of the patient Slaby calls Chad, for example, or the perpetual weeping of Sarah; John's eerie paintings, or Bret's getting himself kicked off the hockey team. Often, Slaby writes, depression is exacerbated when a youth feels shame over a subject that is taboo within the family: homosexuality, an unwanted pregnancy, the family's unacknowledged history of mental illness...
...AIDS virus wreaks its terrible havoc. The virus itself isn't deadly, but it leaves the body defenseless against all sorts of diseases that are. Other viruses, like Ebola, kill immune cells too, but very quickly; the dead cells form massive, deadly blood clots. Still others, hantavirus, for example, trigger a powerful reaction in which immune cells attack both the invading virus and the host's healthy cells...
...attempt at autobiography, self-analysis, explanation, excuse. After coming home from New York, he wrote, he was "depressed . . . without phone . . . money for rent . . . money for child support . . . money for debts . . . money!!! . . . I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain . . . of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . . " And then this: "I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky...
...Haiti operation. Despite the fist shaking, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson sees no indications the military has changed its time frame for a possible invasion in late September or early October. "Plainly an orchestration campaign is now under way," he says. And the White House's hair-trigger statements? "I suppose that's just smart. The sense you get now is maybe they want to throw people off, so that when they're expected to zig, they...