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Thursday September 22, 2005

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10:00Schizophrenia Medications

According to a recent study newer drugs commonly used to treat schizophrenia are not more effective than an older less costly medication. Diane and her guests talk about the study and its implications.

Guests

Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center

Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH

11:00Ron Powers: "Mark Twain: A Life" (Free Press)

Biographer Ron Powers presents what he calls "interpretive portraiture" of American humorist, essayist and novelist Mark Twain, and makes the case that Twain became the representative figure of his times.

Guests

Ron Powers, author of "Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain"

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