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...wasn't until the '70s that modern methods were applied to test the medicinal effects of cannabis. As Earleywine recounts, a UCLA study designed to confirm police reports that pot dilates pupils found instead a slight constriction. That's how doctors discovered the drug could help glaucoma sufferers by reducing intraocular pressure. In the years after that discovery, 26 states opened therapeutic research programs...
Tightly controlled countries like North Korea typically stonewall such sensitive inquiries. So the admission did more than just confirm long-held suspicions in Washington that North Korea, a charter member in Bush's "axis of evil," had pursued weapons of mass destruction despite a 1994 agreement to stop. The revelation also jerked a preoccupied world to attention. Why, everyone wondered, was Kim confessing now? And why had Bush pressed the issue, when he was already immersed in two major global confrontations? No wonder the Administration sat on the news for 12 days while it scrambled to figure...
...ammunition by the time two tanks and an Apache helicopter arrived on the scene. The rest of us approached from various angles to try and get at the source of fire; but no one let out a single shot for two hours. The tanks and helicopter could not confirm the exact source of fire and we refused to risk hitting innocents; instead we left our men helpless until we finally discerned the very muzzle flashes in the windows. The tank fired three shells, the helicopter one missile, and it was over. Three Palestinians and one Israeli were injured...
...search of the pair's car yielded a Bushmaster .223 rifle, a tripod and a viewfinder; Montgomery county police say ballistic tests confirm this is the weapon used in at least 11 of the 14 shootings. While Muhammad didn't have sniper training during his stint in the army, Military officials say he qualified as "expert" with the M-16 rifle. Prosecutors will discuss sniper charges at a meeting today
...brain processes an image it recognizes (as opposed to one it has never seen before), it emits distinct electrical impulses that are detectable by scalp sensors. A positive response to a photo of a crime scene may mean a suspect was there before; a negative response may help confirm an alibi...