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...field got a high-profile, scholarly boost two years ago when a study by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston - which was published in the academic journal Neuron - used FMRI technology to determine that cola drinkers subconsciously have warmer feelings for the Coca-Cola brand, and that gives Coke an edge over Pepsi, even though Pepsi performs as well as Coke in blind taste tests. Brain scanning is the field's dominant technology, but other technologies and techniques are used as well, often in conjunction with FMRIs. Magnetoencephalography (MEG), a technology that can read electrical signals pulsating from brain cells...
...Devil Stadium at Arizona State University in Tempe since they moved from St. Louis in 1988. And when they played at home, the 73,000-seat stadium was often half empty. Now, with the eight home games sold out for 2006, "all that positive energy gives our guys a boost," says coach Dennis Green...
...season to get it back faster ... Eventually, I got my first dose of pot belge, which is what led me to addiction. It's got cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and other stimulants in it, and you take it during training or before races when you need a really big boost?and once you've made sure you won't be tested ... The first dose I bought lasted me six months. The last one, two days ... I regret becoming addicted, but not doping. It's a price top athletes pay to go to the limit ... Now, I don't know what...
Those who run Wyoming tread a fine line, reveling in the boom's economic boost to the state but mindful of the growing unrest among residents. State politicians helped landowners win a key battle last year when they passed a law that in essence stripped mineral-rights owners of their historically dominant status. Before the law, nothing forbade energy companies to drill and produce on land without so much as notifying or paying damages to its surface owner. But even that measure of protection is at risk in a political scuffle between Wyoming and federal authorities. In a letter...
...windfall of high-skill, high-paying jobs as the state pushes for more aggressive measures to ratchet down emissions. A recent study by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, projects that the law, by spurring more efficient industrial machinery, energy saving appliances and renewable energy sources, could boost the state's economy by more than $60 billion, creating as many as 89,000 jobs, by 2020. Even the electricity industry, one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases, is not entirely against the law; the state's largest investor-owned utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, declared that it "strikes...