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...Primarily, MDMA kills brain cells each and every time it is used. Moreover, the seats of memory (both short and long term) are affected for significant amounts of time (sometimes as long as seven years). Furthermore, there seems to be marked increases in various psychological disorders, including acute and chronic depression and schizophrenia...
...each of us wants these claims to be true, the findings from the task force, led by Tufts University biochemist Norman Krimsky, deliver a sobering dose of reality. There is insufficient scientific evidence, the team concludes, to support the notion that taking megadoses of dietary antioxidants can prevent chronic diseases. But the report goes even further. "Extremely large doses [of antioxidants]," it says, "may lead to health problems." Megadoses of vitamin E, for instance, can put you at greater risk of bleeding, while too much vitamin C causes diarrhea and may interfere with cancer treatments. Take too much selenium...
...best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same time that Store 24 transforms into Store 23. The next day the lighter functioned perfectly. "Coincidence? We think not," say Willison and Hartnett...
Pity the beleaguered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Even before last week's announcement by Celera, applications for patents on human genes were pouring in by the thousands. Biotech firms are seeking rights to genes that might control everything from the neurotransmitters in your brain to susceptibility to chronic diseases. The frenzy is rekindling fears that a few corporations will end up controlling a priceless resource...
Fair Ball reveals none of the weepy sentimentalism of a purist disappointed in the modern game. This carefully argued series of prescriptive, cold-eyed remedies targeting baseball's chronic illnesses is far more valuable than that, aiming to repair the increasing imbalance of rich clubs and poor ones; the potentially self-immolating hard line of the players' union; the idiocy of the playoff system. Best of all, baseball's finest broadcaster may actually have the credibility to bring the ironheaded owners and players to heel. Costas for Commissioner...