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         The Best of the News 2000-2008, Topical Order


Topical Index: Other Indexes:
Addictions 2000 Topical Index
Book & Film Reviews 2001 Topical Index
Child & Adolescent Mental Health 2002 Topical Index
Criminal Sexual Misconduct 2003 Topical Index
Domestic Violence 2004 Topical Index
Eating Disorders 2005 Topical Index
Emotional Disorders 2006 Topical Index
Family & Marital Issues 2007 Topical Index
Forensic Psychology 2008 Topical Index
Gay, Lesbian & Gender Issues  
General Human Behavior 2000 Chronological Index
Major Mental Illness 2001 Chronological Index
Managed Care 2002 Chronological Index
Miscellaneous Topics 2003 Chronological Index
Professional Issues 2004 Chronological Index
Psychoanalysis 2005 Chronological Index
Psychotherapy 2006 Chronological Index
Psychotropic Medications 2007 Chronological Index
Trauma & Recovery 2008 Chronological Index
Treatment Approaches  
Women & Mental Health  


Addictions:
Los Angeles Times, 4/7/2000- The Drug Dilemma
New York Times, 2/5/2001- Gritty Portrayal Of the Abyss From a Survivor
New York Times, 4/24/2001- 'Masters' Show How to Get High on Life Without Abusing Alcohol
New York Times, 7/10/2001- A Ravaged Musical Prodigy At a Crossroads With Drugs
New York Times Magazine, 7/29/2001- The Alchemy of OxyContin
Washington Post, 8/27/2001- Hustling For Souls
New York Times, 1/29/2002- Marijuana's Effects: More Than Munchies
New York Times Magazine, 2/10/2002- Staying Clean: Does Rehab Really Work?
New York Times, 2/19/2002- Scientists Examine How 'Social Rewards' Hijack the Brain
Washington Post, 2/19/2002- A Growing List of Drugs to Help Smokers Quit
New York Times, 2/19/2002- Pulling Back the Curtain of Smoke
Hartford Courant, 10/20/2002- Small Town, Big-Time Heron Use (5 article series)
Washington Post, 10/24/2003- After Detox, The Hardest Part of Treatment Begins
Ann Arbor Observer, 11/30/2003- Poisoned Lives: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
New York Times Magazine, 2/6/2005- My Addicted Son
Washington Post, 3/29/2005- 46 Million Still Smoke
The New Yorker, 5/23/2005- Crystal Meth & HIV: Even Higher Risks
New York Times, 10/19/2005- Temptation to Gamble Is Near for Troops Overseas
Hartford Courant, 11/27/2005- Smart, Successful, Addicted, He Stole Thousands
New York Times, 12/5/2005- Instant Millions Can't Halt Winner's Grim Slide
Los Angeles Times, 12/30/2005- Internet Creates New Group of Sexual Addicts
New York Times Magazine, 6/25/2006- An Anti-Addiction Pill?
New York Times, 9/19/2006- Democrat, Republican and a Bond of Addiction
New York Times, 10/12/2006- Bodies in Motion, Clean and Sober
New York Times, 10/18/2006 Man is Convicted of Murder in Drunken Driving Case
New York Times Magazine, 1/21/2007- Looking for My Father in Las Vegas
New York Times, 11/4/2007- Staying Loyal to a Killer, From His Trial to Their Arrest
New York Times Magazine, 7/20/2008- Me and My Girls


Book & Film Reviews:
New York Times Book Review, 5/7/2000- A Book Review of "Of Two Minds"
New York Times Book Review, 1/27/2002- "The Truth Will Set You Free" by Alice Miller
New York Times, 4/19/2003- I Feel, Therefore I Am
New York Times Book Review, 11/14/2004- The Truth About Drug Companies
New York Times, 3/19/2008- A Brief History of Anxiety



Child & Adolescent Mental Health:
Washington Post, 3/26/2000- Autism's New Face
New York Times, 3/28/2000-Experts Offer Fresh Insights Into the Mind of the Grieving Child
New York Times, 4/18/2000- Growing Up on a Ritalin-Prozac Cocktail: Is This What Ricky Needs?
New York Times, 4/9/2000- Fury, Not Facts, in the Battle Over Childhood Behavior
New York Times Magazine, 6/18/2000- The Little Professor Syndrome
Los Angles Times, 3/12/2001- Advances in Treatment Give Hope to Parents of Children with Autism
Los Angles Times, 3/12/2001- Parents Look to Umproven Therapies to Solve Autism
Washington Post, 3/18/2001- The Trouble With ADHD
New York Times, 3/25/2001-  'The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Hartford Courant, 5/31/2001- Explosive Children, Desperate Parents
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/7/2002- Illinois Reopens Probe of Suicide at Maryville
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/8/2002- Smyth's Clout Has Grown With Maryville
Chicago Sun-Times, 9/9/2002- Blunt-Talking Professor Stirred up Maryville Plot
New York Times, 11/19/2002- A Boy, a Mother And a Rare Map of Autism's World
Los Angeles Times, 12/6/2002- Resilience: Thriving Despite It All
New York Times, 4/13/2003- Autism: Nudging Toward Normal
New York Times, 2/26/2005- As Autistic Children Grow, So Does Social Gap
New York Times, 3/24/2005- Signs of Danger Were Missed in Troubled Teen's Life
New York Times, 10/22/2006- Living With Love, Chaos and Haley
New York Times, 11/11/2006- Psychiatrists Often Disagree About Child Diagnosis
New York Times, 12/22/2006- Parenting as Therapy for Child's Mental Disorders
New York Times Magazine, 2/18/2007- Siblings of Autistic Children, A Case Study
New York Times, 11/5/2007- Foster Children at Risk, and an Opportunity Lost


Criminal Sexual Misconduct:
New York Times Magazine, 11/19/2000- How Do You Cure a Sex Addict?
New York Times, 11/17/2003- Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms
New York Times, 11/25/2003- Lawyer for Church Says He Hid Own Sexual Abuse
New York Times, 7/1/2004- Daughter Says Father's Confessional Book Didn't Confess Molestation
New York Times Magazine, 1/23/2005- The Making of a Molester
New York Times, 12/19/2005- Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
New York Times, 3/4/2007- Mandated Treatment for Sex Offenders Often Fails
New York Times Magazine, 7/22/2007- Budding Pedophile Or a Kid With Boundary Problems?


Domestic Violence:
Washington Post, 3/30/2001- In Baltimore, a Victim Becomes a Criminal
Los Angeles Times, 1/29/2002- Domestic Violence Behind the Shoji Screen
New York Times, 11/17/2002- Fierce Entanglements


Eating Disorders:
New York Times, 6/11/2002- Anorexia Strategy: Family As Doctor
New York Times Magazine, 9/8/2002- A Secret Society of the Starving
Newsweek, 12/5/2005- Fighting Anorexia: No One Is to Blame
Newsweek, 12/5/2005- A Father Describes His Daughter's Journey


Emotional Disorders:
New York Times, 3/21/2000- Finding Hope Amid Despair in Treating Compulsive Disorders
New York Times, 5/21/2000- Julie Krone's Race Against Depression
New York Times, 6/25/2000- Depression Comes Out of Hiding
New York Times, 11/6/2000- Comforting Lessons in Arranging Life's Details
Washington Post, 3/20/2001- Isolation, Paranoia, Despair
New York Times Magazine, 8/22/2004- Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?
New York Times, 11/16/2004- Oh, Fine, You're Right. I'm Passive-Aggressive
Los Angeles Times, 2/25/2005- How Shy Is Too Shy?
Los Angeles Times, 10/17/2005- Depression's Machismo Mask
New York Times Magazine, 4/2/2006- A Depression Switch?
New York Times, 3/19/2008- A Brief History of Anxiety


Family & Marital Issues:
Chicago Tribune, 7/2/2000- Adult Children of Divorce Approach the Altar Warily
New York Times, 12/16/2000- Judith Wallerstein: Resolute Adversary of Divorce
New York Times, 4/21/2001- Another Academic Salvo From a 'Mommy Wars' Veteran
New York Times, 4/22/2001- Science, Studies and Motherhood
ABC News, 1/31/2002- Rethinking The Rules of Parenting
New York Times, 3/26/2002- Two Constrasting Portraits of Children of Divorce
New York Times, 10/23/2002- Good & Bad Marriage, Boon & Bane to Health
New York Times Magazine, 5/8/2005- The Father's Crusade
New York Times, 2/28/2006- Beyond Rivalry, A Hidden World of Sibling Violence
New York Times Magazine, 8/12/2007 Can This Marriage Be Saved?


Forensic Psychology:
New York Times, 2/12/2000- Behind a Murder Suspect's Cool Facade, Emotional Havoc
New York Times, 3/23/2000- Insanity Defense Fails for Man Who Threw Woman Onto Track
New York Times, 3/23/2000- Jury Focused on Law, Not the Mental Health System
New York Times, 4/9/2000- They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, then Kill In Quanity
New York Times, 4/9/2000- How Youngest Killers Differ: Peer Support
New York Times, 4/10/2000- The Well-Marked Roads to Homicidal Rage
New York Times, 4/12/2000- Man and His Son's Slayer Unite to Ask Why
New York Times, 4/16/2000- 'I'd Never Really Hurt Anybody': Perched on the Razor's Edge of Anger
New York Times, 7/31/2000- Voices in His Head Muted, A Killer Rejoins the World
New York Times, 9/6/2000- Trying to Prevent the Next Killer Rampage
Washington Post, 1/23/2001- Capitol Shooter's Untreated Madness Fuels Legal and Ethical Debate
New York Times, 4/23/2002- A Psychiatrist's-Eye View of Murder & Insanity
New York Times, 4/13/2003- Vincent Gigante, Not Crazy After All
New York Times Magazine, 11/16/2003- Should John Hinckley Go Free?
New York Times, 2/8/2005- For the Worst of Us, The Diagnosis May Be 'Evil'
Hartford Courant, 12/18/2005- Contours of Evil
New York Times Magazine, 3/11/2007- The Brain on the Stand


Gay, Lesbian & Gender Issues:

The New Yorker, 5/23/2005- Crystal Meth & HIV: Even Higher Risks


General Human Behavior:
Washington Post, 11/2/1999- Scientists Probe Origin of Emotions
New York Times, 11/2/1999- New Clues As to Why We Dream
New York Times, 8/15/2000- Seeing Pessimism's Place in a Smiley-Faced World

Chicago Tribune, 3/19/2001- Stressed-Out Society Gives Birth to Rage
New York Times, 1/22/2002-The Urge to Punish Cheats Isn't Merely Vengeance
New York Times Magazine, 2/3/2002- The Trouble With Self-Esteem
New York Times, 9/17/2002- In Nature vs. Nurture, a Voice for Nature
New York Times, 10/1/2002- Deflating Self-Esteem's Role in Society's Ills
New York Times, 7/18/2004- Dreams: Inward Bound
New York Times Magazine, 1/22/2006- The Animal Self
New York Times, 6/15/2006- That Wild Streak? Maybe It Runs in the Family
New York Times, 2/3/2007- A Study of Memory Looks at Fact and Fiction
New York Times Magazine, 7/8/2007- The Gregarious Brain
New York Times, 10/23/2007- An Active Purposeful Machine That Come Out at Night to Play


Major Mental Illness:
New York Times, 10/15/2000- Vanity and a Small Voice Made Him Do It
Denver Post, 11/18/2000- Quieting the Voices Inside
Washington Post, 1/12/2001- At the Top of My Game
Ann Arbor News, 1/28/2001- Man  Accused of Student's Homicide, Had Been In and Out of Treatment
Los Angeles Times, 2/19/2001- Still, the Stigma of Schizophrenia Remains
Washington Post, 4/16/2001- A Life Dedicated to Helping the Mentally Ill
Boston Globe, 4/17/2001- Treatment Revolution
Washington Post, 9/12/2001- A Child Endangered, Without a Lifeline
Washington Post, 10/23/2001- Second Opinion: On the Front Lines of Mental Health
New York Times, 2/5/2002- A Rare Day: The Movies Get Mental Illness Right
Washington Post, 2/12/2002- 'Beautiful'--but Not Rare--Recovery from Schizophrenia
New York Times, 2/24/2002- "Gracefully Insane: The Rise & Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3/19/2002- Woman's Triumphs Break Myths About Schizophrenia
New York Times, 3/31/2002- Where Postmodern Art and Schizophrenia Intersect
New York Times, 4/28/2002- For Mentally Ill, Death and Misery
New York Times Magazine, 4/28/2002- Who Was Responsible For Elizabeth Shin?
New York Times, 4/29/2002- Here Life Is Squalor and Chaos
New York Times, 4/30/2002- Voiceless, Defenseless And a Source of Cash
New York Times, 6/4/2002- Connecting Depression and Artistry
San Francisco Chronicle, 8/5/2002- Psychiatric Outcast Ponders Parasitic Mental Illness
Ann Arbor Observer, 8/31/2002- Life, Death and Madness
Washington Post, 9/24/2002- Bipolar Drugs: Easy Rx, Hard to Take
Boston Globe, 1/5/2003- A Mother's Deadly Struggle For Her Sanity
New York Times, 5/6/2003- Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Michigan Mental Care System Sows Web of Despair
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Ex-Governor Engler Accelerated Closure of Michigan's Mental Institutions
Detroit News, 7/20/2003- Caring For the Mentally Ill: A Michigan Chronology
Detroit News, 7/21/2003- Budget Troubles Force Detroit Agencies to Juggle Mentally Ill
Associated Press, 1/17/2004- Many Knew Daniel Was a Troubled Boy, But No One Helped
Baltimore Sun, 5/14/2004- Depression Research Finds Mental Health Experts Optimistic
Ann Arbor News, 6/27/2004- Depression: Climbing Out of the Dark
New York Times Magazine, 10/31/2004- A Death in the Box
New York Times, 2/28/2005- In City's Jails, Missed Signals Open Way to Season of Suicides
New York Times, 3/22/2005- Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive

Washington Post, 12/21/2005- Sudden Shift in Moods
New York Times, 5/23/2006- A Career That Has Mirrored Psychiatry's Path
New York Times Magazine, 3/25/2007- Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head?
Boston Globe, 6/8/2007- Mental Patients Find Understanding in Peer-Led Therapy
The New Yorker, 10/29/2007- Larry David and Schizophrenia
New York Times Magazine, 7/6/2008- The Urge To End It All


Managed Care:
Detroit News, 6/1/2002- Why Managed Care Failed
New York Times Magazine, 9/15/2002- Pete Domenici and Parity in Insurance Coverage


Miscellaneous Topics:
Los Angeles Times, 5/1/2000- The Science of Passion
New York Times Magazine, 9/17/2000- Speak, Memory
New York Times, 2/20/2001- What's In an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much
New York Times, 2/20/2001- Samson Diagnosis: Antisocial Personality Disorder
Los Angeles Times, 6/24/2001- Tourette Syndrome: A Private Struggle
Washington Post, 7/15/2001- His Brother's Keeper: David Kaczynski
Washington Post, 1/14/2002- John Walker's Restless Quest Is Strange Odyssey
New York Times, 7/7/2002- Portfolios Depressed, Traders Seek Therapy
New York Times, 5/5/2003- So Much for the Madman Theory
New York Times, 4/29/2004- An Answer, Not a Cure, for a Social Disorder
New York Times, 5/9/2004- The Disability Movement Turns to Brains
Boston Globe, 6/13/2004- McSorley's Death Recalls a Life Long Lost
New York Times Magazine, 6/20/2004- Band on the Couch
New York Times Magazine, 7/18/2004- Adult ADHD: Office Messes
New York Times, 11/9/2004- Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex
Los Angeles Times, 11/17/2004- The Kinsey Effect
New York Times, 11/16/2005- A Lobotomy That He Says Didn't Touch His Soul
New York Times, 11/22/2005- This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis
New York Times Magazine, 2/5/2006- Looking for the Lie
New York Times, 12/21/2006- Saying Yes to Mess
New York Times, 1/7/2007- Happiness 101
New York Times, 3/16/2007- Gunman Had Pent-Up Hostility and Resume of Failures
New York Times, 3/17/2007- Gunman Saw Himself as Slow to Anger, E-Mail Says


Professional Issues:
New York Times, 6/6/2000- Sex and the Therapist: Views of the Couch
New York Times, 1/16/2001- Patient Suicide Brings Therapists Lasting Pain
New York Times, 7/8/2003- Doctors' Toughest Diagnosis: Own Mental Health
New York Times, 4/26/2005- A Healing Journey, From Harvard to the Homeless Shelters
New York Times, 3/6/2008- What's in a Chair?


Psychoanalysis:
New York Times, 11/2/1999- 100 Years Ago, a Book Ignites the Study of the Mind
New York Times, 11/2/1999- New Clues As to Why We Dream
New York Times Book Review, 2/27/2000- Freud's Second Thoughts
New York Times, 3/25/2000- Getting Alienated Freudians to Associate
Los Angeles Times, 4/6/2000- Freud: Conflict & Culture
New York Times, 6/10/2000- New Translation Aims to Free Freud From His Disciples' Obsessions
New York Times, 11/4/2000- Returning to Freud for Help With the Riddles of Philosophy
New York Times, 2/17/2001- Freud, Influential Yet Unloved
New York Times, 3/14/2002- Authors as Patients: Analysts Read Between Their Lines
New York Times Book Review- 12/22/2002- Analyzing Freud
New York Times, 1/28/2003- Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Still Prefer the Couch
New York Times Magazine, 7/13/2003- The Literary Freud
New York Times, 1/24/2006- A New Diagnostic Guide With a Touch of Personality
Newsweek, 3/27/2006- Freud in Our Midst
New York Times, 7/3/2007- The 'Big Dreams' Are the Threads of Our Lives



Psychotherapy
Los Angeles Times, 1/18/2000- Are We Better Yet?
New York Times, 5/1/2001- Opening A Window On Therapy
New York Times, 5/29/2001- Therapists Reveal Their New Obsession: 'The Sopranos'
New York Times, 7/4/2001- In Psychotherapy, Mundane Remarks Speak Volumes About the Personality
New York Times, 12/29/2001- Therapists Go Crazy for One in 'Sopranos'
New York Times, 12/11/2001- Digging Up A Disorder From A Mess
New York Times, 1/1/2002- Therapists Redraw Line on Self-Disclosure
New York Times, 1/8/2002- A Diagnosis Not Exactly in the Book
New York Times, 2/26/2002- One by One, A Family Is Treated
New York Times, 7/30/2002- The Mother Often Stays In the Picture
New York Times, 8/27/2002- A Rebel Psychiatrist Calls Out to His Profession
New York Times, 8/27/2002- Like Drugs, Talk Therapy Can Change Brain Chemistry
New York Times, 8/31/2002- A Couch for Authors In Need of One
Washington Post, 9/1/2002- Doctors Consider Diagnosis for 'Ill' Relationships


Psychotropic Medications:
Boston Globe, 5/7/2000- Prozac Revisited: As Drug Gets Remade, Concerns About Suicides Surface
Boston Globe, 5/15/2000- Doctor Lashes Out in Prozac Battle
ABC News, 5/24/2000- Interview with Dr. Joseph Glenmullen: Author of Prozac Backlash
New York Times, 7/18/2000- Once Again, Prozac Takes Center Stage, In Furor
Washington Post, 8/4/2001- Prozac's Reign Ends But Legacy Endures
Washington Post, 5/7/2002- Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
New York Times, 6/25/2002- Can the Placebo Treat Depression? That Depends
New York Times, 6/30/2002- Antidepressants Lose 'Miracle Drug' Label
Washington Post, 9/24/2002- Bipolar Drugs: Easy Rx, Hard to Take
New York Times, 11/17/2002- Preschool Meds
Boston Globe, 11/25/2002- Use of Psychotropic Drug Soars Despite Controversy
Boston Globe, 12/15/2002- Drug Firms and Doctors: The Offers Pour In
New York Times, 5/20/2003- Leading Drugs for Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny
New York Times, 4/6/2004- The Altered Human Is Already Here
New York Times Book Review, 11/14/2004- The Truth About Drug Companies
New York Times Magazine, 11/21/2004- The Antidepressant Dilemma
New York Times, 11/16/2005- Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends
New York Times Magazine, 5/6/2007- Self-Nonmedication
New York Times, 6/3/2007- After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay
New York Times, 6/3/2007- A Battle With Depression and Suicidal Tendencies
New York Times Magazine, 6/17/2007- Doctor or Drug Pusher?


Trauma & Recovery
Los Angeles Times, 1/15/2001- Healing Body and Spirit of Rape Victims
Houston Chronicle, 7/22/2001- Student Raped by Coach Rebuilding her Life
New York Times, 9/18/2001- Stress From Attacks Will Chase Some Into the Depths of Their Minds and Stay
New York Times, 11/6/2001- Traumatic Moments End, But the Reminders Linger
New York Times Magazine, 11/11/2001- Mending a Psyche Damaged by Sept. 11
Washington Post, 11/20/2001- What Calamity Does to Families Is Complicated
New York Times, 11/20/2001- Treatment Can Ease Lingering Trauma of Sept. 11
New York Times, 12/5/2001- In a Stressed New York City, No Room at the Bar
Los Angeles Times, 1/9/2002- Emotionally Scarred for Life by Trauma
New York Times, 9/10/2002- When Grief Takes Hold of the Body
New York Times, 9/11/2002- Mental Health: The Profession Tests Its Limits
New York Times, 11/3/2005- For '73 Rape Victim, DNA Revivies Horror, Too
New York Times, 11/4/2005- 32 Years Later, Rape Victim Confronts Attack Suspect
New York Times, 2/28/2006- Beyond Rivalry, A Hidden World of Sibling Violence
New York Times Magazine, 4/30/2006- A Question of Resilience
New York Times Magazine, 5/28/2006- Bringing PTSD Back Home


Treatment Approaches:

New York Times, 1/11/2000- Pragmatist Embodies His No-Nonsense Therapy
Boston Globe, 4/23/2000- Healing Arts
New York Times, 5/7/2000- What Do We Talk About When We Are Paying Someone to Listen
New York Times Magazine, 5/7/2000- Walking Toward Mindfulness:  Where Meditation is Going
Washington Post, 6/6/2000- She was Shocked
Washington Post, 6/6/2000- Therapy: Positive and Negative Charges
New York Times, 1/23/2001- A No-Drug Approach to Wellness
Los Angeles Times, 2/4/2001- Seeking Child's Love, a Child's Life is Lost
New York Times, 3/6/2001- A Critic Takes On Psychiatric Dogma, Loudly
New York Times, 10/28/2001- The Healing Ways of Dr. Dog
Washington Post, 10/30/2001- EMDR, in the Eye of the Storm
New York Times, 1/16/2002- At the Cradle Cafe, Therapy for the Troubled Mind
Los Angeles Times, 3/27/2002- Trauma Therapy's New Focus
Boston Globe, 4/3/2002- Priest Treatment Unfolds in Costly, Secretive World
New York Times, 4/27/2002- Finding Faith's Place in Psychiatric Treatment
New York Times, 7/30/2002- A Protected Space, Where Art Comes Calling
Washington Post, 9/3/2002- Cognitive Therapy: A Change of Mind
Washington Post, 12/24/2002- The Happy Heretic
New York Times, 1/15/2004- Group Therapy Helps Ease Burden of AIDS in Uganda
New York Times, 3/30/2004- A New Era in Treating Imaginary Ills
New York Times, 3/30/2004- Doctors, Too, Have Fears
New York Times, 6/8/2004- Pills or Talk Therapy?
New York Times, 7/11/2004- The Shrinking of the American Band
New York Times, 7/13/2004- A Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls
Time Magazine, 2/13/2006- Happiness Isn't Normal
Los Angeles Times, 3/23/2006- Art Therapy: The Healing Canvas
The New Yorker, 10/29/2007- Larry David and Schizophrenia


Women & Mental Health
New York Times, 3/30/2002- Listening for the Voices of Women



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