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...Research in Personality. The most vociferous critics to psilocybin research believe that it is not conducted for scientific purposes, and that the experimenters are interested in experience rather than reporting their results. A major element of the defense of research contends that scientific method and reportable results are the goal of the research. But a second element of the defense claims that experience is a legitimate goal of inquiry, and that psilocybin should be used in order to heighten perception so that the experimenters may gain new insight into personality by perceiving behavior more clearly white under influence of these...
...Celtics shot close to 50 percent from the field for the game, but they were 34-for-61 (55.7 percent) after the first quarter, when they trailed 29-22. The Lakers, after making 58.4 percent of their field-goal attempts in the first two games, shot 49.4 percent yesterday, but took five fewer shots than Boston...
...reversing that decision, the Supreme Court ruled that pretrial detention is not an impermissible punishment forbidden by the Fifth Amendment, because it is not intended as punishment at all. Rather, it was designed by Congress as a "regulatory" act, with the legitimate Government goal of public safety. "The mere fact that a person is detained does not inexorably lead to the conclusion that the government has imposed punishment," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority...
...most successful of the six I have attended," Treasury Secretary James Baker helped to win endorsement of an ambitious plan to control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...
...goal of the Venice meeting -- to boost global economic growth -- calls for fundamental, and thus more difficult, changes in disparate national economic policies. Even so, financial markets turned optimistic last week as the summit meeting neared. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks rose 48.37 points over the previous week, closing at | 2291.57. The U.S. dollar staged its strongest rally of the year, rising about 2% against the yen and the deutsche mark in two days. Experts wondered, however, whether the financial markets could continue to pay such handsome returns in the face of dismal economic...