People who suffer from depression don't normally lose their will to live; instead life ceases to interest them.
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A Loveless, Sexless Marriage
When a man loses all desire for physical affection, he incurs losses for everyone else in his life.
Read More »Face Transplant Surgery Raises Ethical Questions
The question of who we see when we look into the mirror is not a trivial one for most of us.
Read More »Theater Review: On Ego at the Soho Theatre
Billed as a "theatre essay", the play succeeds in bringing together medicine and philosophy, performance and literature.
Read More »The High Stakes of Driving High
When did marijuana become the new alcohol?
Read More »In Defense Of Love
Infatuation has been studied and mislabeled.
Read More »Tom Cruise: Ultrasound Rebel
If Tom Cruise gets any weirder, he may turn into Michael Jackson. In an interview taped October 30 that aired Tuesday on Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, the movie star, Scientologist, scourge of the medicated multitudes, and theoretical impregnator of his fiancee Katy Holmes, said, …
Read More »How Fair Is the Kyoto Accord?
The West built its economies without environmental restrictions. India, China and other nations aren't so lucky.
Read More »1000 Days To 2008 Beijing Olympics – Or Not
Could avian flu cause the relocation of the 2008 Olympic Games?
Read More »Book Review: Galileo’s Children
Examining the never-ending struggle between science and superstition and the moral dilemmas it can create.
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