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...national chain is also famed for its wide selection of music, particularly foreign rock bands and hard-to-find oldies. The Boston branch, managed by Greg Wallis, will be no exception, a spokesman said...
Hutton was founded by Edward F. Hutton, a stockbroker who later became chairman of General Foods. The brokerage thrived on the strength of its retail branch offices (total brokers: 6,500) and avoided being taken over during Wall Street's consolidation binge in the early 1980s. But the firm apparently grew faster than its supervisory structure could handle. In 1985 Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud for operating an elaborate check-kiting scheme in which the company's cash managers had used at least $10 billion from 400 banks without paying interest...
Steven Paul, chief of the clinical neuroscience branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, is studying how ethanol affects certain cells in the brain to induce sedative effects. He is looking at a group of receptors, sites on the membranes of brain cells, that link with a molecule called gamma- aminobutyric acid (GABA), a neurotransmitter that moves across the synapses between neurons. GABA homes in on a complex known as the GABA-benzodiazepine receptor. If there are a sufficient number of GABA molecules present in certain areas of the brain, anxiety diminishes. Tranquilizers such as Valium and Librium work...
...study; as an appellate judge he participated in 1,400 decisions and personally wrote more than 400 opinions. At least two have made legal history. In 1980 he ruled against the so-called legislative veto, a once common practice under which Congress would grant certain authority to the Executive Branch but reserve to itself the right to disapprove particular actions exercising that authority. Kennedy declared that the practice violated the constitutional separation of powers. In a 1983 dissent, Kennedy argued that a court should admit evidence gathered by police under a search warrant that they believed in "good faith...
...hard to understand how protesters of purportedly deep moral conviction could so quickly drop their beliefs. That when one vital branch of protest gets chilly, they can so quickly fly to another...