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Should Professors Cheech and Chong ever receive university tenure teaching the medical history of their favorite subject, the course 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...It’s one of the top ten games I’ve ever seen,” Harvard Coach Ray Leone said after the match...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Beats Yale, Stays Perfect in Ivies | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...usage of specific diction in characterizing Clinton’s laugh and voice, including the denotation of Clinton being “cackling” and “shrill” as “completely gendered terms,” asking the audience when a man has ever been described as “shrill...

Author: By Janie M. Tankard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former NOW President Talks Media Bias | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...Ever want to cheer up a friend stressed-out by midterms, but too busy studying for your own midterms to buy them a gift? Ever wish your parents could buy you Berryline from 1,000 miles away...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Gift Texting = Yummy | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...best. That's how you do it, and that's completely the opposite of the way we do it now. Right now we're acting out a fiction, which is that we can tell whether someone's good at this enormously complex thing called teaching before they've ever taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Malcolm Gladwell | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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