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...Scanlon surveys the scene from the bar he owns, just across a recycling plant on the industrial outskirts of St. Paul, Minn. "You just get used to it," he says. But he's not just talking about the state's notoriously long and frigid winters. Scanlon, 63, breaks into a laugh with a slightly Irish lilt. He's also talking about the unending senatorial contest the state is going through. "It just keeps going on and going on," he says. Indeed, in this northern state, patience is not a virtue - it's a necessity. Minnesotans, nevertheless, long for warmer weather...
...continue to use, despite negative consequences - addiction rates are much lower when drugs like Ritalin and Adderall are prescribed for ADHD. It's not clear whether the pattern of addiction under medical supervision for enhancement would follow the former or the latter - or whether it would even meet the bar for addiction. Medically speaking, without the element of harm, regular drug use - or even dependence - alone doesn't qualify as addiction...
Pohl's map is the first to take into account the entirety of the Milky Way, including its elusive inner galaxy, which is "really complicated and weird," Pohl says, because of the gravitational pull of a large bar of matter located at the center; the map will be particularly useful to a research group in France that has been studying dark matter, which, as Reid's team has established, the Milky Way has a lot more of than previous studies had revealed. Dark matter, so called because it gives off little or no light, is one of the most abundant...
...MRAP casually tossed a Red Bull out of the turret to an Iraqi pedestrian. The man on the sidewalk caught it as the U.S. soldiers giggled. Later at a dining facility at Camp Liberty, a U.S. base, I was stopped short on my way to the salad bar when I saw the "non-pork grill" - a relatively new addition to meet the needs of the increasing number of Iraqis using the U.S. facilities. It is a major step away from the cultural blunders of the post-invasion years...
...like Christakis, Wood cautions against excessive alarm. "It's an unfortunate situation," says Wood, "if a family with an inaccurate perception of the allergy leads a child to believe that a Snickers bar from 50 feet away is a lethal weapon...