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...ever there was a safe recreational drug, modafinil seemed to be it. The greatest little pick-me-up since the cup of joe - or so its enthusiasts said - the antinarcolepsy medication has helped recreational and casual users stay peppy without the benefit of sleep. As for addiction? Not to worry. The drugs that hook you most powerfully do their work by mucking about with the pleasure-inducing brain chemical dopamine, but modafinil doesn't go there. "Modafinil," as Slate magazine claimed in a 2003 posting on the drug, "tiptoes around dopamine...
...sometimes on the same team, sometimes on opposing ones,” Sullivan said. “Obama was really very good, and he still is.”More than a dozen years later, after having taken separate paths with their law degrees, Obama and Sullivan extended their casual friendship. The President asked Sullivan to serve as an informal adviser during his historic bid for the White House.And just three months after Obama transcended racial barriers to become the first black president, Sullivan has made history of his own. In early February, the clinical professor...
Amadou and Mariam's lyrics tend toward uncontroversial declarations like "Hypocrisy in politics, it's not good/ We don't want any." (It's possible the lyric sheet was simplified in the translation from Bambara and French; it's also possible they're just casual lyricists.) The exception, linguistically, is "I Follow You," sung by Amadou to his wife in tender, halting English: "Under the sun, baby, I follow you/ Under the ground, baby, I follow you." As Amadou told a British music magazine, "We would like English-speaking people to understand us. It's not a large vocabulary...
...CASE BASISBut despite their concerted efforts, Square restaurants say the economy has taken its toll on business.“We haven’t been immune,” Consorti said.The recession has not been equal in dampening business—expensive eateries have been hit harder and casual sit-down chains have seen sales slide dramatically, while more adaptable, locally-owned restaurants have been faring better.“I’ve been hearing mostly bad news from casual dining chains,” Consorti said. “Local restaurants with local followings are doing well...
...case of influenza. To marry, some Rohingya must sign a document promising not to bear more than two children - a regulation that presumably ensures the number of Muslim inhabitants of Arakan doesn't mushroom faster than the Buddhist population. Burmese prejudice against the Rohingya is as casual as it is cruel. When international indignation over the junta's treatment of the Muslim minority erupted earlier this year, Burma's consul general to Hong Kong issued a letter saying that the Rohingya could not possibly be Burmese since they were "dark brown" and "ugly as ogres...