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36346 Anti Depressants?... -- rank: 1000

Reese wrote: >You disagree with the approach? Fine, hope you, yours, and everyone >else can afford the prescriptions for a problem that predates >psychiatry. I'd rather take my dose of reality from a couple laps >around the block, than from a pill bottle. Isn't it nice you have the choice. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:02:39 PDT 2000

36347 making things returns to fashion -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - August 29, 2000 Net VC: Past Its Prime? By Paul Bonanos Even analysts can't agree about the state of Internet venture capital. While VentureOne reported that funding of Internet companies in the second quarter fell short of the previous quarter's total for the first time in years, new figures from two other research firms indicate a slight rise in investment flow. PricewaterhouseCoopers showed an 8 percent increase in Internet funding, while Venture Economics reported a 6 perce ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 30 08:55:34 PDT 2000

36348 Anti-Depressants -- rank: 1000

Dace wrote: >One of the most damaging effects of the dominant school of psychiatry is the >use of the loaded word "histrionic" to label this sort of speech. It's not >even about hysteria. It's about attracting attention. What's wrong with histrionic? I find this sort of thing, from DSM-IV, kind of obsessive but also kind of interesting (maybe because I'm obsessive): >[Histrionic personality disorder] >Differential Diagnosis > >Other Personality Disorders may be c ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 16:26:38 PDT 2000

36349 Greenberg: is he or isn't he (DLC)? -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >The Dems already have the pwogs by the balls and >they know it-that's what triangulation means, after all. Depends on who you mean here. If you mean the editors of the liberal weeklies, you're right. If you mean working class voters, you're not. If w.c. voters stay home, Dems lose. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 13:48:34 PDT 2000

36350 MSFT: don't use our stuff -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>======================================================== >>ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" InfoWorld.com >>======================================================== > > >You get this via email? Yup. You can subscribe at the InfoWorld.com site. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 12:15:33 PDT 2000

36351 Mr Dereg talks -- rank: 1000

[Michael Thomas once said that the WSJ's edit page is a substitute for a comics page. Here's proof.] Wall Street Journal - August 29, 2000 Deregulation Answers the Charges Some people call me Dandy. Some people call me Damn. But my real name is Deregulation. I know you have been hearing a lot of gossip about me lately -- especially in California -- so I'm here to tell you that I'm just doing my job. A really good job, in fact. Electric power is a huge deal -- worth about $218 billion a year -- i ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 11:30:48 PDT 2000

36352 MSFT: don't use our stuff -- rank: 1000

======================================================== ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" InfoWorld.com ======================================================== Tuesday, August 29, 2000 [...] Unix in Redmond I was going to avoid writing about Microsoft this week, but how could I resist sharing these tidbits from ex-Microsofties? These former Microsoft employees have written in to set the record straight about what's really going on behind the scenes at a few of the softwar ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 11:12:08 PDT 2000

36353 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But this variant of cheap relativism is not held by G, whose view is >that Nazi-era Germans were very different from us *and* *they* >*were* *bad*--*bad* *in* *every* *possible* *way*. Yes, we Americans are so saintly. Three million dead Indochinese? Just a little overzealous police action. A million dead Iraqis? The price is worth it, says our Secretary of State. Slavery and genocide? Ancient history, of no relevance to us. Because we're Americans, God's other chos ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 10:54:40 PDT 2000

36354 gee-whiz, Nigeria! -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Abuja, Nigeria ) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 26, 2000 FACT SHEET Nigeria -- Nigeria is nearly twice the size of California. -- Nigeria, with a population estimated at 110 million, is the most populous country in Africa and the 10th largest in the world. -- One in five sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian. -- There are hundreds of thousands of Nig ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 10:41:40 PDT 2000

36355 Lieberman speaks up for G-d -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 2, 2000 Lieberman's Mix of Faith, Policy Tests Tolerance By Hanna Rosin and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers In the beginning, Republican nominee George W. Bush spoke frankly about how Jesus Christ had changed his life, about the transforming power of faith, about the country's thirst for a religious revival. But after the flap over his speech at Bob Jones University last spring, and his naming Jesus Christ as his favorite political philosopher, he was chasten ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 09:49:46 PDT 2000

36356 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine - Korea -- rank: 1000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 156/000704/DD Trade Union Relations near total break-down in Korea Brussels July 4 2000 (ICFTU OnLine): "Government-trade union relations are in danger of breaking down completely leading to the most serious social unrest since the Asian crisis of autumn 1997", said the ICFTU today commenting on the detention of thousands of trade unionists during the last three days. "The latest development in Korea's industria ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 09:32:18 PDT 2000

36357 the God vote -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] "I say there must be and can be a constitutional place for faith in our public life,'' Senator Joseph Lieberman and Al Gore's choice as vice-president, told an African American congregation in Detroit this past weekend. Polling suggests Americans are reluctant, however, to mix religion and politics. Although nearly six in 10 Americans (57%) say that religion plays a very important role in their life, only a third say their own personal religious beliefs and ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 09:24:44 PDT 2000

36358 Econophysics -- dumb question -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >If the native or raw ability to acquire wealth is distributed >randomly, we ought to see a bell curve of abilities, whether >of individuals or groups. However, in a dynamic system, where >the ability to acquire wealth is positively enhanced by wealth >already acquired, it is a truism that them that has, gets, so >that we can expect any ability to acquire wealth to be quickly >amplified by its own effects unless the effect of existing >wealth on wealt ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 29 08:03:48 PDT 2000

36359 Anti-Depressants -- rank: 1000

Ok, folks. could we please ease up on the ad hominems? Doug

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36360 Anti-Depressants -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Reese wrote: > >> What aspect (or lack thereof) Depression represents, I don't know, >> but I know that persons who remain active don't seem to get >> depressed. >> >> Perhaps it is counter-intuitive. > >You are a malignant idiot. I missed this the first time around. While I wouldn't use Carrol's exactl language here, Reese, what kind of nonsense are you peddling? "People who walk around don't seem to be bedridden." Maybe ...

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