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...January, Richardson and her mother played the roles of mother and daughter in a one-night benefit concert version of "A Little Night Music," the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical, at Studio 54 in New York...
...ever there was a safe recreational drug, modafinil seemed to be it. The greatest little pick-me-up since the cup of joe - or so its enthusiasts said - the antinarcolepsy medication has helped recreational and casual users stay peppy without the benefit of sleep. As for addiction? Not to worry. The drugs that hook you most powerfully do their work by mucking about with the pleasure-inducing brain chemical dopamine, but modafinil doesn't go there. "Modafinil," as Slate magazine claimed in a 2003 posting on the drug, "tiptoes around dopamine...
...schools with the College population.“I think lawyers serving as our new House Masters will let us sleep even more soundly at night,” said Michael C. Koenigs ’09. “Their understanding of the law would always be a benefit for sometimes lawless students.” ‘LONG OVERDUE’ Those “lawless students” will become a part of history next semester with the House Master appointments. Undergrads had been advocating for diversity among House Masters prior to Robinson and Sullivan?...
...with holy oil as she is confirmed into a 2,000-year-old faith tradition. But missing in each of those cases - and in countless others of equal religious importance - is any role for government. There is no baptism certificate issued by the local courthouse and no federal tax benefit attached to the confessional booth, the into-the-water-and-out born-again ceremony or any of the other sacraments that believers hold sacred...
...Although Burma sits on some of the region's richest oil and natural-gas reserves, much of the country lacks electricity. That's because most of its potential fuel is exported to neighboring countries through lucrative contracts that benefit the ruling generals instead of being used at home. The Burmese regime's stated solution to the longrunning national blackout? Jatropha. Also known as "physic nut," the plant produces a green nut that is pressed and processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to Brazil to India, which has already earmarked 100 million...