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...estimated 1 million Americans with Parkinson's disease, the Mexican research offers new hope. "If these results turn out to be valid and replicable, this would be a major advance," says Neuroscientist William Freed of the National Institute of Mental Health. Current treatments for Parkinson's are far from ideal. Levodopa, which is chemically related to dopamine, can cause irregular heartbeats, paranoia and depression, and ceases to be effective after prolonged use. Freed and others are eager to see if the new technique will work in older patients (most Parkinson's victims are over 50), and if its benefits will...
...great achievements was to restore the morale of the American people for a time, just as he restored -- for a time -- a faith in the institution of the presidency & and in the idea of presidential leadership. He persuaded the American people that their optimism was once again valid...
WITH THE TURN of the Screw, Henry James wrote perhaps one of the most controversial novels of the past century, a novel where two conflicting interpretations are both valid. Is it a ghost story or a psychological drama? The Innocents, an adaptation of the story, is William Archibald's attempt at resolving the issue. Originally meant as a movie screenplay,The Innocents has landed in Currier House, adapted to the stage by director Nicholas Martin...
...Official Secrets Act, showed up at the Glasgow office of the British Broadcasting Corp. looking for information that had been leaked to the network about a supersecret spy satellite known as Zircon. It took Scotland Yard officers 28 hours and three attempts to come up with a valid warrant, but then the police carted off two vanloads of BBC film and documents...
Lloyd Suttle, dean of administrative and student affairs, said that tuition rose higher than the inflation rate because inflation figures for the general economy measure costs different from the ones universities face: "Inflation in the economy is not a valid indication of the underlying economic state affecting American universities...