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...neuroscientist who discovered vigabatrin for drug addiction, I was extremely pleased with the breadth and accuracy of "The Science of Addiction." The use of vigabatrin as a potential treatment for drug addiction derives directly from advances made in nuclear medicine imaging research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. If successful, its impact will be felt worldwide. Taxpayer-funded institutions like Brookhaven truly help support the translation of discoveries made in the laboratory to treatments for patients afflicted with life-threatening illnesses, including drug addiction. Continued political support and financial investment in scientific research are vital to maintaining our way of life...
...According to its Web site, Blackwater USA’s mission statement is: “To support national and international security policies that protect those who are defenseless and provide a free voice for all with a dedication to providing ethical, efficient, and effective turnkey solutions that positively impact the lives of those still caught in desperate times.” While vague, the sentiment has strange echoes of the one that can be found on the Department of Defense Web site, which states, in part, that the primary task of “the military departments is to?...
...student engagement in human rights, and suggested that the College’s changing curriculum might cater to that interest. “We have a new undergraduate curriculum being implemented and I can think of all different kinds of opportunities for teaching and learning in human rights to impact the curriculum,” Faust said. Other speakers also called for increasing the opportunities for students to study human rights issues. Nancy L. Rosenblum, chair of the government department and a member of the committee, said that while there were an ample number of human rights-related offerings within...
...reduction in their population by midcentury. Not even strict adherence to the Kyoto accord on limiting greenhouse gases would stop an Arctic meltdown, which means the Arctic, like nowhere else on Earth, is a place where efforts to mitigate global warming have yielded to full-bore adaptation to its impact. That process is freighted with irony. With gas and oil prices near historic highs and with scant prospect of any decrease in world demand for energy, it is only prudent to get a sense of what resources lie below the newly accessible sea. But there is something paradoxical about seeking...
...stakes are high and the outcome will have an impact far beyond Lebanon's narrow borders. And that is why some Lebanese fear that the bomb blast is a grim portent for what lies ahead...