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...research papers to the celebrity-laden Web pages of TMZ. Until Jackson's death, there was little talk about it in celebrity circles. "I didn't know much about it," says Chopra. Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Celebrity Rehab, says he had never seen the drug abused by his hard-living Hollywood clientele. Home use of Diprivan "is something I had never heard of," Pinsky tells TIME. "I'd have an easier time believing that Martians had set down outside this building...
...hard for many Americans to believe, but the United States' checkbook hasn't always been in the red. Aside from periods of war or economic turmoil, the federal budget was actually in surplus for most of the nation's first 200 years. The government incurred considerable debt during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War but paid it off by the early 1900s. Between 1901 and 1916, the budget was almost always balanced. But then came the Great Depression followed closely by World War II, which resulted in a long succession of deficits that caused the federal debt...
...leading generals of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards has already called for his and Mousavi's arrest. Karroubi's newspaper was shut down on Aug. 18, and last week the government advised clerics all over the country to lambaste Karroubi during their Friday sermons. One leading hard-line cleric called for Karroubi to be beaten with a lash...
...Efforts to enroll HIV-positive children in Vietnam's public schools have had dismal results. Even where teachers and local officials have gone door-to-door to educate parents, very few children have ever successfully been enrolled and actually attended. "Parents have their own arguments and it's hard to answer them," says Nguyen Van Chan, the beleaguered principal of An Nhon Dong Elementary School. "We all know how HIV is transmitted but who can give complete assurances?" he asks...
...hard to find reasons why the regime of Muammar Ghaddafi may be loath to accept responsibility for the attack even it agrees to compensate the victims. For one thing, to accept responsibility for a terror attack on a U.S. target that killed 270 people might still invite reprisals - indeed, U.S. counterterrorism officials told the New York Times Wednesday that the trial had showed the limits of using criminal law as a weapon against terrorism, because the real authors of the attack remained unpunished. Read the subtext of those comments, and it's plain to see why there's unlikely...