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...danger to themselves and their friends at parties. Rohypnol can be characterized with symptoms that could in some cases be mistaken for the regular effects of heavy drinking, which is why students should be particularly vigilant and looking for signs of nausea, vomiting and impaired motor skills and complete blackout that can last up to a full day after consumption. It can induce severe fatigue that generally begins within half an hour of consumption and peaks two hours thereafter. As an e-mail circulated by House’s Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors warns, “unconsciousness, dizziness...
...effects of such drugs are undeniably serious—ranging from blackout and amnesia to asphyxiation—and instigate obvious concerns of unwarranted and unprotected sex. In light of these recent cases, UHS should increase in the battery of tests administered to students who have possibly consumed a harmful drug...
...power failure didn't look as murky as it does in In the Cut. Jane Campion's new erotic thriller gives Lower Manhattan a sooty, abused tone that movies haven't often shown since the '70s. But it's appropriate for two characters inching their way toward moral blackout: Frannie (Meg Ryan), an English professor, and Molloy (Mark Ruffalo), a police detective on a serial-killer case. Both are drawn to dark spaces, where strange creatures crawl and sick excitement comes in all sorts of packages. Frannie has tiptoed down into one of those spaces - the basement of a seedy...
...three years from nine synfuel plants in eight states. Yet the cash flow did not seem to help DTE prepare for crunch time in its main business. It lagged behind utilities in New York and Ohio and took three days to restore power to all its customers after the blackout. And it plans to charge consumers for the $30 million to $40 million that it lost during the shutdown...
Putin's Plan B may work, at least as far as Russian public opinion is concerned. Most Russians prefer not to think about the war, and hostility toward Chechens and other people of the Caucasus is endemic. Plus, Putin has been relentless in enforcing a media blackout. The war appears on TV only when there is an incident too large to ignore--like the Chechen suicide bombing in the neighboring republic of Northern Ossetia in August that killed 50 people and destroyed a military hospital--or when ministers boast that the rebels are on their last legs. Russian media owners...