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Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice

Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin.
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press.
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, […]

Slimmer Thighs for Summer

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Summer is right around the corner and its time to help you […]

China plans new oral care regulations

BEIJING (AP) China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers’ use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze.
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used […]

Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice

Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin.
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press.
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, […]

AGs urge crackdown on energy drink claims

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Beverage companies that sell alcoholic energy drinks were harshly criticized Tuesday by more than two dozen state attorneys general who want federal officials to examine the ingredients and marketing of the drinks they say are aimed at underage customers.
In a letter to John Manfreda, the administrator of the federal Alcohol […]