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...According to researchers at the University of Colorado and Columbia University, the results of a daring procedure designed to ameliorate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease have fallen well short of expectations. While some of the human test subjects did experience a brief respite from the tremors and loss of balance associated with Parkinson's, a progressive neurological disease, most were unaffected or adversely affected by the experimental procedure...
...Secretary of the Interior (Gail Norton) who, according to one New York Times letter writer, has "pro-business views [that] make Christie Whitman look like John Muir." Her record on environmental issues is similarly murky, and there is evidence that, in her position as the attorney general of Colorado, Norton rejected the prosecution of a number of pollution cases which would have hurt business interests. Two of the largest lawsuits were subsequently pursued by private environmental groups and resulted in the loss of millions of dollars to the companies in question...
...into a maze. Now the attraction is earning almost as much money as their 200-cow dairy business once did. Cornfield mazes like theirs are cropping up everywhere. In North Carolina there's a Haunted Cornfield maze; in Camarillo, Calif., the Amazing Maize Maze. There are cowboy mazes in Colorado, crawfish mazes in Louisiana and Halloween mazes in almost every state. With an average admission cost of $7, they're a cheap way to while away an afternoon. "It's pretty good exercise," says Annie Lesko, 16, who visited Old MacDonald's Farm maze near Richmond...
...anyone expect this earthquake? Can we expect more in the future? Roger Bilham, professor of geology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, spoke with TIME.com Thursday morning...
Take, for example, his 1993 remark that "homosexuals undermine civilization" and that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that laws protecting specifically gays would patronize them (an argument Machiavelli sort of makes in his Discourses on Livy). And though the BGLSA (it didn't have a "T" that year) might have hated him, several of its members liked and respected Mansfield personally...