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...pack would be surprisingly thick. As early as 2737 B.C., the mystical Emperor Shen Neng of China was prescribing marijuana tea for the treatment of gout, rheumatism, malaria and, oddly enough, poor memory. The drug's popularity as a medicine spread throughout Asia, the Middle East and down the eastern coast of Africa, and certain Hindu sects in India used marijuana for religious purposes and stress relief. Ancient physicians prescribed marijuana for everything from pain relief to earache to childbirth. Doctors also warned against overuse of marijuana, believing that too much consumption caused impotence, blindness and "seeing devils...
Record sales at Christie's recently opened Dubai auction house and a veritable village of Middle Eastern pavilions at this year's Venice Biennale confirm it: Middle Eastern art is on the rise. But what do general audiences know about it? A current show in Paris hopes to address any preconceptions with work by emerging artists that exudes modernity and vigor...
...donated over $2 million to the TRO, which has been banned in the U.S. and Sri Lanka since 2007. The organization has always denied that it is a front for the Tigers, arguing that it was engaged in charitable and humanitarian work in Tamil-majority areas in northern and eastern Sri Lanka during the civil-war years. The ministry had also shared a dossier on Rajaratnam with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this year...
...Anglicans can move into a local Catholic Church that will be headed by former Anglican clergy, who can ease them into Catholicism without their having to kiss goodbye their own pastor or the rites they were raised on. Married Anglican priests who convert, like married priests in the Eastern Rite of Catholicism, will not be eligible to become bishops...
...gave the Soviet military one last shot at turning things around, according to Gates, who was the No. 2 man in the CIA at the time. "During Gorbachev's first 18 months in power, we saw new, more aggressive Soviet tactics, a spread of the war to the eastern provinces, attacks inside Pakistan, and more indiscriminate use of air power," Gates wrote in his 1996 autobiography. But it failed to turn the tide. So in February 1988, Gorbachev finally threw in the towel. But at least he could console himself with the belief that the vacuum created by withdrawing would...