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...When we batter back and forth like this, oftentimes it causes many voters just to tune out and term it politics as usual,” Roberts said. But “because of the other active high level races, this is not going to affect turnout in this particular race...
Does it make you sick? Marijuana may directly affect the immune system, since one of the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids is located in immune cells. But the nature of the effect is unclear. A recent study showed that THC inhibits production of immune-stimulating substances. But cigarette smokers may do greater harm to their immunity than pot users, who tend to smoke less. A study published earlier this year found that tobacco smokers but not marijuana smokers had high levels of a type of enzyme believed to inflame the lungs. Dr. Donald Abrams, professor of clinical medicine...
...never smoked pot in junior high because I was convinced it would shrivel my incipient manhood. This was the 1980s, and those stark this-is-your-brain-on-drugs ads already had me vaguely worried about memory loss and psychosis. But when other boys said pot might affect our southern regions, I was truly terrified. I didn't smoke a joint for the first time until...
...point that Luke Smith ’04 makes, that athletes negatively affect the social cohesion of Harvard, and that the quotes from a tiny sample of athletes totally encompass Harvard’s athletic community, are so inane and dissociated from reality that perhaps we should consider closing The Crimson for seven weeks to give some editors a much-needed respite from their tireless dedication to journalism...
...destroyed by terrorist acts, not human injury. Health-care services were uninterested and unprepared for the special needs of terror victims. The legally trained Rudetzki decided to do something. She began relentlessly lobbying politicians and administrators for legislation adapted to victims of terrorism, a scourge she correctly predicted would affect increasing numbers of people. She founded SOS Attentats with other terror victims in 1986, the same year a bomb on the Champs Elysées killed two and wounded 21. That attack coincided with parliamentary elections, and Rudetzki's crusade for victims suddenly got a fuller hearing. Soon, France...