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...that does not make it real news. Real news is the result of careful investigation into issues that affect our lives. Real news is crucial to our understanding of the world around. Real news helps us see problems and, hopefully, helps us find solutions as well. Apartheid, the AIDS epidemic, Enron, Firestone tires, Tailhook and, of course, Watergate are prime examples of the powerful and important role journalists play in shaping our world. And it is precisely this kind of journalism that we should foster. We need it more than we realize...
...marijuana has less potential for dependence and is less likely to induce withdrawal symptoms than alcohol, nicotine and even caffeine. It is considerably less harmful to the lungs than smoking cigarettes, not only because cigarette smokers tend to consume their product in much larger quantities, but also because cigarettes affect smaller airways in the lungs and thus do proportionately more damage. While there has not been a single death reported from cannabis, cigarettes kill 430,000 people annually...
...site, chillingeffects.org, which officially launched last week, seeks to educate the general public about their rights on the World Wide Web as well as monitor trends that affect free speech on the Internet, Seltzer says. The new site received over a million hits in its first two days, according to Diane Cabell, an instructor at the Berkman Center...
...can’t we treat that physical location and thereby alleviate the mental problem? We do not need to rob from mental experiences, as Kim puts it, “their qualitative character, their special accessibility to our awareness, and their privacy” in order to affect and enhance them by chemically altering their corresponding physical locus...
...change will not affect any students taking tests this spring...