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Review: 'Shoot the Damn Dog' by Sally Brampton
Los Angeles TimesSHOOT THE DAMN DOG: A Memoir of Depression, by Sally Brampton. W.W. Norton, 326 pp., $23.95. Here's what I love about this book: the absolute physicality of the depression that gripped Sally Brampton - literally by the throat; what Freud called...Tags: Therapies, Health Treatments, Illnesses, Animal Science
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Knowing who killed a loved one is justice
Philip Lerman, former co-executive producer of "America's Most Wanted," is the author of the memoir "Dadditude," just released in paperback.The last sound my parents heard was the glass smashing against the wall, and the slam of the front door. My stepsister Jackie, in a schizophrenia-fueled rage, had picked up the nearest object and flung it across the room before running off again, as...Tags: Manhattan, Suffolk County (New York), Crimes, Illnesses, Family
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Raising voices on Alzheimer's
The Associated PressDon Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day," he quickly jokes. Hayen is part of a growing new movement in Alzheimer's: Patients diagnosed early enough...Tags: Lobbying, San Diego (San Diego, California), Oklahoma, Research, Diseases
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'Cash Cab' won't take contestants for a ride
Special to The TimesTHERE ARE 13,000 cabs in New York City. Only one has a game show inside. Discovery Channel's "Cash Cab" is a back-to-basics quiz program that invites unsuspecting passengers to buckle up and play along, paying hard cash to answer not-so-hard questions on...Tags: TiVo Inc., Manhattan, New York, Television Industry, Starbucks Corporation
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Turns out that foreclosures aren't child's play either
United Feature SyndicateWASHINGTON—Everyone realizes the price of foreclosure can be staggering. A recent report by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress pegs the average at nearly $78,000 per house—and that doesn't count the human component. Take kids, for...Tags: Loans, Financial and Business Services, Mortgages, Government, Chicago Mortgages
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Life in a fish bowl
Of The Associated PressIt might have been the setting for a ''Jaws'' movie. Six snorkelers wading like ducks in a row, cruising just below the surface of the water while watching exotic fish dart beneath them. It was all very peaceful, until the mysterious whale shark appeared...Tags: Nature, Biology, Natural Resources, Illnesses, Forests
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Appreciating playwright-humorist Christopher Durang
linda.winer@newsday.comIt is time to appreciate Christopher Durang. Actually, it is long past time to have a drum roll for this singular voice in American theater. But there are two Durang revivals this week (as well as a new play opening at the Public Theatre next season),...Tags: Roman Catholic, Music Theater, Cartoons, Illnesses, Church and State Relations
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Tragic end to personal battle
martin.evans@newsday.comThe March 2003 image became one of the most iconic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: that of a bespectacled American soldier carrying an Iraqi child to safety. The photograph of Army Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, who was raised in Mount Sinai, was used by news outlets...Tags: Roman Catholic, American Medical Association, Michael Wilson, Disasters, Health Organizations
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Howard Education Notes
Howard Community College will hold new-student orientation sessions from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 18 and from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at the college's Athletics Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. First-time students are expected to...Tags: Family, Financial Aid, Health and Safety at School, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities
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Tuning in, not out
Timothy Leary is smiling somewhere. More than 40 years after the U.S. government banned hallucinogens - those dangerous hippie indulgences - and scoffed at the Harvard psychologist and anyone else who suggested they might have a legitimate use, federal...Tags: Medical Specialization, Research, Timothy Leary, Medical Research, Addiction
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