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Brita Roy, an Indian American, met her boyfriend George Jones, an African American, at Vanderbilt University, where the 21-year-olds are students. Although her parents in Michigan are immigrants from India and Jones attended all-black elementary and middle schools in Selma, Ala., the two say they have far more similarities than differences. They both attended small, upscale boarding schools; both are career minded. They share tastes for hip-hop music, Thai and Italian food, and shopping at Banana Republic. And they're well educated and affluent, like many interracial couples...
...HUPD officers impounded a suspicious letter found in Vanderbilt Hall...
According to an article published Monday in the Boston Globe, the three finalists are Colgate University Athletic Director Mark Murphy, Vanderbilt University Senior Associate Athletic Director Brad Bates, and “dark horse” candidate Brian Hehir ’75, a vice chair of Merrill Lynch in New York...
...most definitive study yet of the efficacy of St. John's wort in treating major depression, doctors last week concluded that the extract is essentially useless. On the basis of these findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Shelton, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University and the study's lead author, says flatly that he wouldn't recommend St. John's wort to any of his patients. As for the 30 or so earlier trials showing that the herb had some therapeutic value, he--like many other scientists--dismisses them as badly designed, inadequate or otherwise...
Shelton and his colleagues acknowledge that theirs is not the final word. That could come before the end of the year when the National Institutes of Health completes a larger, three-year study that will meet one of the criticisms of the Vanderbilt trial. Instead of simply dividing patients into two groups--one on St. John's wort, the other on a placebo--the NIH study has a third group taking a prescription antidepressant. What should people who are using St. John's wort or thinking about it do until then? "Hold off," says Shelton, and consider...