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...countries. Just over 20% of Americans reported trying pot by age 15 and nearly 3% had tried cocaine by the same age. Those percentages jumped to 54% and 16%, respectively, by age 21. That finding isn't surprising, says Dr. Richard Schottenfeld, a professor of psychiatry and a drug expert at the Yale University School of Medicine, since peer influence has a significant impact on the prevalence of drug use. In the Netherlands, for example, there is a large, vocal and homogeneous conservative population that is staunchly opposed to marijuana, says Schottenfeld. And anti-drug activists have made recent attempts...
...Washington really wants to help Pakistan, its policies must move beyond Musharraf and the military and give the people a higher priority. Seth Jones, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., says that Pakistan has become the neglected stepchild, only third or fourth in a list of U.S. strategic interests that start with Iraq and Afghanistan. "Pakistan should be No. 1," says Jones. "The most serious homeland threat to the United States from abroad comes from militant groups operating in Pakistan...
...Washington Climate Censorship? A three-page letter by a former Environmental Protection Agency official charges that Vice President Dick Cheney's office excised six pages on the adverse health effects of global warming from expert testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2007. The White House said the pages were cut because they didn't match the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But Senator Barbara Boxer, who chairs the environment committee, has called that statement a "lie," saying the cuts amounted to censorship...
Scientists, however, are skeptical of Charalambous' claims that the dance floor may be able to generate up to 60% of the club's electricity. "That level of power surprises me," says Eric Cross, an expert on piezoelectric materials at Penn State University. According to Cross, the required materials are stiff, but if enough people are moving at the same time, he surmises, it's possible that that much energy could be produced. The rest of the electricity at Surya--Sanskrit for "sun god"--will come from solar panels and wind turbines...
...what does it matter that Iran test-fired nine missiles Wednesday? "It's mostly relevant because of how it plays out in the campaign," says Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution. After a week of bad news, campaign restructuring and silly television spots, the missile tests are a boon for John McCain. Wednesday his campaign made hay with them, saying they showed Barack Obama's inexperience and the danger of his willingness to negotiate with Tehran. For his part, Obama tried to spin the tests to his advantage, saying they showed the Administration's policies were failing...