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Paul S. Appelbaum
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Psychiatry
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655

William T. Carpenter
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
P.O. Box 21247
Baltimore, MD 21228

William Gardner
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Center for Research on Health Care
E518 Montefiore University Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 12, September 18, 1999, p. 182. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.