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...Louisiana State University student and Sigma Alpha Epsilon plegde, dies of acute alcohol poisoning as a result of a fraternity drinking binge at several parties. Wynne's blood alcohol level was measured at 0.588, six times the legal limit, according to an Aug. 30 article in the Advocate in Baton Rouge...
...purpose. As Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, describes it, "These neurotransmitters modulate raw information and give it its emotional tone." Northwestern University psychiatrist James Stockard puts it more poetically: "A person's mood is like a symphony, and serotonin is like the conductor's baton." Other neurotransmitters help us know our stomachs are full; serotonin tells us whether we feel satisfied. Other chemicals help us perceive the water level in a glass; serotonin helps us decide whether we will think of it as half empty or half full...
...demise of privacy heralds the advent of a cybertribal era--an age of new barbarians obsessed with the dissolution of individuality. Our digital existence has exploded the romantic myth of freedom. Escape from this schizophrenic duality calls for the reinvention of science, values and relationships. BRIJ MOHAN Baton Rouge...
...those methods fail, other options range from chemical sprays to shotguns that fire beanbags. And the use of such impact devices as batons has dropped from more than 1,000 incidents 10 years ago to just 63 last year. "The side-handle baton is so heavily associated with the King incident that they just don't want to be caught using it," says Randy Minini, a sergeant in charge of physical training. "Use of force has become the most controversial aspect of police work...
Enter Stanton Friedman, a former itinerant nuclear physicist now living in New Brunswick, Canada, who has long been, in his words, "a clear-cut, unambiguous UFOlogist." In 1978, while waiting in a Baton Rouge, La., television station for an interview, Friedman was told that Jesse Marcel, long retired from the Air Force and living nearby, had once handled the wreckage of a UFO. After quizzing Marcel, who still believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial, Friedman reviewed the old stories about Roswell, painstakingly sought out and interviewed other witnesses, and came to a dramatic conclusion: there had been a cover...