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Though the attention around the previously obscure drug has increased awareness of its dangers, there is also the chance it will raise curiosity among potential abusers. Dr. David Sack, chief executive officer of Promises rehabilitation facility in Malibu, Calif., says the drug presents inherent obstacles to mainstream appeal, including its lack of street availability and its need to be administered by a needle. While Hollywood's troubled abusers have yet to start showing up at his doors with propofol problems, he doesn't rule it out. "Whenever a drug gets attention like this in the media, people want...
...major new study indicates that farms and forests may not be as incompatible as we often assume. Using detailed satellite imagery, scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre (WAC) found that on almost half of all farmed landscapes around the world, landowners are either sparing some existing trees or planting new ones, leading to what the study calls "significant" tree cover. In fact, on more than 1 billion hectares (2.5 billion acres) of farmland, which is twice the size of the Amazon, tree cover exceeds 10%. That's a huge increase from previous estimates, which were...
...other thing is basic prison etiquette. A lot of people don't know how to be respectful - period. They're cocky and they walk around with a chip on their shoulder. Now they don't even have a name; they have a number. They have to follow rules. And they have to make sure they don't do stupid things...
...never really understood the kind of adjustable-rate loan I was given, which I feel was a bit predatory, given my economic circumstances," she says. "I'm even willing to buy the house outright from them for what I'm told they'd probably get it for at auction, around $100,000. Anything to keep the house. My neighborhood's got too many foreclosed homes as it is." She points to one that lenders have yet to sell - but which she and her neighbors fear has become a nighttime lair for drug-addict squatters. (Watch a video on people facing...
...Federal Reserve Board in 2002, his only brush with politics had been a stint on his local school board. Before the markets went haywire, he was building a reputation at the Fed as a collegial and unassuming technocrat who had none of the cult of personality that had swirled around Alan Greenspan - and he actually tried to make himself understood...