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Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, scientists describe for the first time a set of genes, about 100 in all, that seem to predict how well a smoker will respond to two different types of quitting programs - nicotine replacement or bupropion (Zyban). Nicotine-replacement methods, including the patch, pill and gum, work by weaning the smoker off nicotine gradually, usually over a period of weeks or months. Bupropion, on the other hand, is an antidepressant, which does not contain nicotine; instead, it works to curb nicotine cravings by interfering with the reward circuit in the brain, where...
...President, he has no direct control or influence over state party organizations. Such control is very important in any national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon’s presidential hopes, has realized by running for the California governorship this fall. The most important method by which Nixon can build up personal obligations and loyalty among Republican state committees is to accept numerous campaign speaking dates in the various states. But a heavy speech schedule lures him into the dangers of partisanship and charges of dirty politics to which Nixon is vulnerable...
...Stanford’s decision.” Armini declined to comment on specifics about Stanford's decision or how the announcement will impact the grading system at Harvard, though Dean Elena Kagan has said in the past that Harvard has "no plans" to move to a grading method similar to Yale's. In other law school news, Kagan announced this week that the Law School had raised over $450 million in its capital campaign, intended to finance an ambitious agenda that includes new buildings, an expanded faculty, and more generous financial aid programs. The five-year campaign, which...
...forecast you can ask the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science. Or you can ask someone like Bing, an elderly gentleman who used to cut lawns in my neck of Miami. Each year Bing would tell us what kind of hurricane season to expect. The key to his method was May: if it was a hot dry one, we'd better break out the window shutters; if it was cool and rainy, he'd tell us to relax. And he was usually right, especially in 2004 and 2005, when Florida got pummeled by enough hurricanes to blow Humphrey Bogart...
PAINTERS The most innovative art can come from the most venerable of techniques. In the case of British husband-and-wife team Rob and Nick Carter, it started with a photographic method first developed...