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After Fujimori set the date for last week's assault, the army managed to smuggle at least 11 listening devices into the residence. Some were tiny, matchstick-size two-way microphones that allowed intelligence officers to communicate with the military and police commanders being held inside. The gizmos were carried into the building four days before the raid by intelligence agents posing as government doctors there to check on the hostages' health. The devices were supplied by the cia, according to the military official, and were concealed in personal items, like books, guitars and thermos bottles, that were supposedly sent...
...team of researchers led by psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has published the strongest evidence to date that the surge of dopamine in addicts' brains is what triggers a cocaine high. In last week's edition of the journal Nature they described how powerful brain-imaging technology can be used to track the rise of dopamine and link it to feelings of euphoria...
...like heroin or stimulants like cocaine, mimic the structure of neurotransmitters, the most mind-bending chemicals nature has ever concocted. Neurotransmitters underlie every thought and emotion, memory and learning; they carry the signals between all the nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain. Among some 50 neurotransmitters discovered to date, a good half a dozen, including dopamine, are known to play a role in addiction...
...attorneys general. The industry would pay a large sum, perhaps as much as $300 billion, and agree to numerous restrictions on advertising and sales in order to settle suits by 24 states. With the verdict, Big Tobacco also temporarily shooed away the specter of Norwood "Woody" Wilner, who to date has won the only cash award from a tobacco company, a $750,000 judgment from Brown & Williamson for another Jacksonville smoker who developed lung cancer. That case, as well as this one, is on appeal. Afterward, a tearful Dana Raulerson, who led the suit on behalf of her sister Jean...
...cooperation. The U.N. ambassador headed to Botswana to meet with Ugandan President and Kabila mentor Yoweri Museveni, who may have the leverage over Kabila that Richardson lacks. Though their meeting ended without a handshake, Kabila and Mobutu agreed to meet again in ten days. It is unclear how that date would fit with Kabila's ultimatum--or the rapid advance of his troops. Senior State Department officials say that parts of Kabila's army could be in Kinshasa by the end of this week...