Word: arizona
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Blogs suck up news the way an Arizona lawn sucks up water. And it's not just blogs. The Internet has given power to everybody. My e-mail brings news that students at Andover, the prep school, are "launching a breakthrough website ... the first-ever student-run publication focused exclusively on the presidential race...
...Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at NIMH--found "robust and rapid antidepressant effects" that remained for a week after depressed subjects were given ketamine (colloquial name: Special K or usually just k). In the other study, a team led by Dr. Francisco Moreno of the University of Arizona gave psilocybin (the merrymaking chemical in psychedelic mushrooms) to obsessive-compulsive-disorder patients, most of whom later showed "acute reductions in core OCD symptoms." Now researchers at Harvard are studying how Ecstasy might help alleviate anxiety disorders, and the Beckley Foundation, a British trust, has received approval to begin what will...
...youngest voters, Obama leads Clinton 35 to 28 percent. According the latest national Gallup poll of Democratic voters of all ages, Clinton leads Obama by five percent points, outside the three percent margin of error. Young Republicans, however, appear prepared to vote with the party faithful, preferring Giuliani over Arizona Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney in similar portions to the overall GOP, according to Gallup polling. Though Romney—a graduate of the Business School and Law School—lagged in popularity, his supporters seem to be the most dedicated; more than four...
...were also the top national fundraisers for the quarter—the other candidates received only small sums from Harvard donors. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, took in $6,700 and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, a Democrat, raised $4,400. Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican who has lagged significantly behind the other major candidates in overall fundraising, did not receive any donations from Harvard employees. Professors at Harvard Law School, where Obama received his law degree in 1991, were the primary source of the senator’s funds. Much of his take came...
...October 28, 2002: Tucson, Arizona Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her. A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting himself...