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...prohibit them. An example of this seemingly endless cycle is the ban on BZP, a stimulant also known as 1-benzylpiperazine. The E.U. announced last year that all member states should ban BZP by March 2009 (lagging five years behind the U.S.). Like Britain, several other E.U. states still haven't complied, but already BZP "alternatives" are being advertised all over legal-high-vendor websites. It's unknown what exactly is in these BZP imitators, but if they're related to piperazines, manufacturers will have to find another alternative, as these too will fall under the new British ban. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Designer Drugs: Britain Bans Legal Highs | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...wife Teresa. When a Sudanese delegation came to town, Senator Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican who has been involved in Darfur issues, got invited to dinner. "I can't recall Senator Kerry and I in the same room hardly before that ... He has been solicitous of us participating; I haven't seen any standoffishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Kerry: Back in the Hunt | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...sick of waiting," said Phyllis Lingley, 83, who has been living in the Charlesview apartments for 40 years. "This has been going on for years, and we haven't seen a damn thing built...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Clash Over Revised Charlesview Relocation | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...That said, there's something a bit creepy about the megapower that's accumulating at the Fed, one of Washington's least accountable institutions. Why should the markets decide who oversees them? Haven't the markets decided enough? Bernanke may be the ideal benevolent financial despot - a nebbishy superscholar with minimal connections to Wall Street and no previous hunger for power - but the next Fed chairman may be less ideal. And Obama has proposed to give even more regulatory power to the Fed, even though it has shown little interest in the past in curbing the excesses of the markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Reappointed Bernanke to the Fed | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...discussing all your problems and think you've solved everything, but in fact you haven't done anything in the last four hours, because you've just been chewing khat and all your problems actually got worse," says Adel al-Shujaa, a professor of political science at Sana'a University and the head of the Yemen Without Khat Association. Plus, he says, "all the decisions you've made are bad because you've made them while on khat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

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