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...years since Richard Nixon famously announced America's "War on Drugs," it's hard to know exactly how far we are from victory, partly because the facts are so elusive: Who uses illegal drugs? Which drugs? How often? The answers come mainly from SAMHSA's national survey, a complex and carefully worded questionnaire administered continually throughout the year. It is one of the government's primary sources of statistical information on the use of illegal drugs by the U.S. population, but its data are far from perfect...
...German government considers a cult. But now officials have changed their minds. Cruise's film company is making a movie tentatively titled Valkyrie, about a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler. The film can now include several scenes shot at the so-called "Bendler Block," a building complex in central Berlin where the officer was executed. Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters that a consideration of the film's script led to the decision. The film shows that "barbarism didn't triumph but led to the founding of a democratic Germany," he said...
What a brilliant science writer is Daniel Williams. He has written about the complex phenomenon of near-death experiences in layman's terms [Sept. 10]. I had a cardiac arrest in 2003 and was resuscitated by well-trained paramedics. I did not have a near-death experience, just the total blankness of a deep sleep. I believe NDEs are caused by malfunctions of consciousness arising from an oxygen-starved brain. The forms NDEs take are influenced by culture and by religious beliefs. I don't think any non-Christian, for example, would see a tunnel lit by brilliant white light...
...University expects to receive approval for its long-anticipated science complex from the city within the next few weeks. It filed its draft project impact report, a document exceeding 1,000 pages, in June for the buildings, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative, giving the public 90 days to review the proposal...
...Additionally, Boston City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo appealed to the BRA to give the community more time to digest Harvard’s plans, noting that the 90-day comment period has been “too short to resolve many of the complex issues raised by the Report and the project itself...