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...Brain Quicken clutter health-store shelves and the Internet, often with little scientific basis for their claims. Pill popping in some circles has become as American as SAT-prep classes. Students and professionals in growing numbers are taking potentially addictive stimulants like Ritalin to focus their minds and bolster their memory...
...that takes place in the neuron as it encodes memory. The first of those ampakine molecules has been shown in a recent study to boost the attention and mental performance of healthy, sleep-deprived men. The more powerful compounds in Cortex's untested arsenal, says CEO Roger Stoll, may bolster long-term memory without inducing the jittery side effects of drugs like Ritalin and caffeine...
...adulterous woman, then told her to sin no more - and repeated that pattern again and again. Since Sullivan is so quick to draw examples from the Bible, he should read up on the parts that specifically call homosexuality a sin instead of picking and choosing the parts that bolster his case. Katie Hepburn San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Heed Reality in Iraq Controversy over Iraq has dogged the Bush Administration since the war's onset [Dec. 12]. The dispute has provided capital for the Democrats, eroding the Administration's approval ratings and effectively killing its political agenda. But it's practically...
...junket to Europe as a junior senator, he decided such trips wasted taxpayer money, and never again traveled abroad on the federal dollar. The senator finally let me travel to some defense installations on a government-paid staff trip after I showed him how the information I collected would bolster legislation he was proposing to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the Pentagon budget. But he did so only after checking the airline schedules himself to make sure I was booking the cheapest ticket...
...easy to look at it as ludicrous, but the bottom line is that many students have lost housing around campus due to flood damage and housing on campus was in short supply in the first place,” she wrote. Nikolich said that the budget cuts bolster the case for allowing the eight visiting Tulane freshmen to apply to transfer to Harvard, a cause that the Undergraduate Council has supported. The Harvard admissions office has told the freshmen that they must return to Tulane in the spring, but can apply to transfer to Harvard in the fall...