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...very public, both on the way up and on the way down. Yup, in this business, if you've been around long enough, you start realizing that Kool-Aid is just full of all sorts of bad toxins that can make you really, really high and really, really low. I will admit I drank it to an extent. This is the first job that I've had, ever in my life, where I don't want to go anywhere else. I don't want to move up. I'm not looking to be on the Today show or anywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...that may involve learning to connect a place or a person with the desire for more drugs. Maze showed that even after a week of abstinence, mice given a new dose of cocaine still had elevated levels of gene activation in the nucleus accumbens, meaning G9a levels were still low. It is not known how long these changes can last. Maze also showed that when he intervened and raised G9a levels, the mice were less attracted to cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cocaine Scrambles Genes in the Brain | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...made really bad puns," Elisabeth said. "They were really terrible, [but other times] sophisticated—from very high brow to low brow...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eminent Byzantinist Dies, Leaves Legacy of Open-Minded Scholarship | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...oversize bottle of liquid that a checkpoint of German guards in Munich had found and allowed him to keep. Tony Williams, an American arriving from Qatar, said flying first class had put him in an expedited lane through security after connecting from an airport in Laos with "shockingly low security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Flyers Report Extra Security, More Delays | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...vodka. (Unsure what to do with the oversupply, the government gave the vodka to scientists, who used it in experiments - one of which led to a new kind of synthetic rubber.) Prohibition remained in effect during the 1917 revolution and subsequent civil war. But when the teetotaling Bolsheviks ran low on funds, they rethought their stance; by 1925 vodka was back on the shelves of state-run dispensaries. In World War II, every Russian soldier at the front was given a daily ration of vodka - roughly a shot's worth - and by the 1950s Russia had fallen completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russians and Vodka | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

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