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...haven't already heard the term nootrope, better jot it down. Chances are you'll hear it a lot in the future. A marriage of the Greek words noos, for "mind," and tropein, for "toward," it refers to drugs that enhance mental performance?popularly known as smart drugs. Nootropes aren't new. Amphetamines, first synthesized by a German chemist in 1887 and used in over-the-counter inhalers by the 1920s, were doled out generously during World War II to Allied and German troops to keep them alert. Military pilots still take dextroamphetamine, or go pills, to stay in fighting...
...Tenet is no stranger to opprobrium (his reputation will never recover from his telling Bush that the evidence on WMD was a "slam dunk"), but the verdict of his subordinates in State of War is particularly withering. "George Tenet liked to talk about how he was a tough Greek from Queens," a former Tenet aide tells Risen before going on to use a vulgar word for wimp to describe him instead. "He just wanted people to like...
...months since Snuppy's debut in the journal Nature, Hwang's saga has been rewritten--as a Greek tragedy. One by one, he has faced an escalating series of charges: first, that some women had been paid for the eggs they provided for his research, and that eggs also came from his employees, both ethical violations in the rigorous world of high-level research. Then came the allegation that some of the photos of cells he published did not show what he claimed. And finally, as he was forced to admit two weeks ago, before submitting his resignation to Seoul...
Hayatt, a 30-year-old Pakistani, says he never had any trouble with the police in five years of living in Athens. That is until, he claims, several Greek and British intelligence officers kidnapped him a week after the July 7 bombings in London. "What happened," he stutters in halting Greek, "was frightening." Hayatt alleges that he was hooded and bundled into a van with six others, then "taken to a nice house about 30 minutes from Athens. I was asked about what I knew of the London bombings. I said, 'Nothing. Just what I saw on TV.'" His captors...
...does not bear Arabic script but is in Hebrew. Could you explain why? Michaela Mills Jerusalem Fourteenth century Spain was populated by Muslims, Christians and Jews, who exchanged cultural and scientific knowledge. The astrolabe was an Arab invention, but the devices are inscribed in many different languages - Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew - depending on the craftsman or intended owner. The one we showed just happens to be inscribed in Hebrew...