Word: california
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...doesn't look like a gambler. With his boyish face and slender build, he could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three--or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist. In fact, when he was an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology back in the 1970s, Ho hung around the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, tilting the odds in his favor by memorizing each card as it was played. He got so good at counting cards that he was thrown out of several casinos...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: California and Arizona voters may have decided that illegal substances can be prescribed in some cases for medical purposes, but federal drug-fighting agencies are not so sure. Little more than a month after the two states passed propositions allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana and other drugs for certain patients, federal officials have announced that they may penalize physicians who choose to exercise this new freedom. Under federal law, it is illegal for a doctor to prescribe Schedule I substances, which include drugs like marijuana and heroin. Federal officials indicated Monday that a plan outlining their response...
...away because too many African Americans have turned Simpson into an icon. I'm afraid that race relations have been set back. Affirmative-action programs have been set back. The healing will begin when Simpson wipes the smirk off his face and goes away. PAUL WASSERMAN Northridge, California...
...future medicine will ever be able to reverse. But what about the things medicine will be able to do in the future? Cryonics is for those illnesses we don't yet know how to cure. Cryonics is available now if you want it. THOMAS DONALDSON Half Moon Bay, California Via E-mail...
ARRAIGNED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 54, Unabomber suspect; on charges of mailing an explosive device that killed a New Jersey ad executive; in Newark, New Jersey, via TV hookup from Sacramento, California, where he is being held. Kaczynski pleaded not guilty...