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That Antarctica is so little understood is not surprising, for it is a remote, otherworldly place that in many ways resembles early Mars more than contemporary Earth. And no place is more Martian in character than the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a wedge of rugged, rocky terrain stippled with ice-covered lakes and overhung by glaciers. No diminutive alpine plants cling to the slopes of these valleys. No rodents scurry amid the boulders and scree. No flies or mosquitoes whir through the air; no fish, mollusks or crustaceans dwell in the lakes and streams...
After Hazelwood, most observers understood that public high school students would be forced to shed quite substantial constitutional rights. The new ruling held that censorship “reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns” is permissible...
...says J. Scott Hinkle, a family therapist in Greensboro, N.C.: "Tell this individual how much he or she really meant to you when you do get in touch and that you see the other side of the argument." That is what Blanke did. "I told my friend that I understood why she felt the way she did. But we didn't try to analyze it beyond that, and the anger basically dissolved...
Precisely how these powerful chemicals affect the course of heart disease, cancer and other illnesses isn't well understood yet, but preliminary research has yielded some tantalizing clues. When serotonin circulates in the bloodstream, for example, it appears to make platelets less sticky and thus less likely to clump together in artery-blocking blood clots. For years, heart-attack survivors have been advised to take a children's aspirin daily for clot prevention; such drugs as Prozac, which keep serotonin in circulation, seem to have a similar effect...
Schizophrenia is the most personally destructive and least understood of all the major mental illnesses. Its principal hallmark is extremely disordered thinking--the kind that robs many of its victims of the ability to keep a job, maintain a relationship or even hold a coherent conversation. The first serious symptoms typically begin sometime after puberty, in the late teens or 20s. Some but not all schizophrenics suffer hallucinations. Some but not all schizophrenics hear voices. The cause is undeniably physical--perhaps the unhappy combination of a genetic predisposition and an infection suffered in the womb. In any event...