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...time. Meunier said she was particularly excited about the new program in Washington. “A lot of our students are really interested in urban education,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity for them to look at a new model and teach.” Despite these shifts, Meunier said that the budget for the ASB program—totaling approximately $50,000—will be “substantially smaller” than last year’s due to the economic climate. Operating costs for this year?...
Americans are fond of the idea that they can keep from doing "bad" drugs by taking "good" ones instead. The heroin/methadone model has actually been institutionalized: you can go to government-funded clinics to get methadone as "maintenance treatment" for heroin addiction - since both drugs bind to the same brain receptors. Experimental types in the '60s believed that LSD was a wonder drug that could cure alcoholism. The same claim was made during the '80s for a drug that was, at the time, perfectly legal and even used by a few psychotherapists: MDMA, a chemical now better known as ecstasy...
...madrasah, separate schools for boys and girls, a free hospital and a university. Its founders, Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal and Abdullah Azzam - the latter was bin Laden's mentor until he was killed by a car bomb in Peshawar in 1989 - declared that their objective was to create a model Islamic environment removed from state interference. Education would focus on jihad but also emphasize science and technology. The campus includes stables, fishponds, playing fields, a foundry, a carpentry workshop, a mosque and computer-enabled classrooms. It is better equipped than most Pakistani state universities...
...often thought to play second fiddle to neurons but they play an ever increasing role in maintenance of the brain,” said Brian J. Bacskai, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the study. The researchers used a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease in the study to develop some of the pathology found in humans, including senile plaques. They selectively labeled astrocytes with a marker that was bright when the cell was active and dimmer when it was inactive, said Kishore V.G.S. Kuchibhotla, a graduate student...
...group of researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital have published findings on a new, more accurate method to predict stroke risk through a statistical model that screens for thousands of potentially stroke-causing genes. The model—called a Bayesian network—differs from existing methods that examine only the effect of a single factor, instead allowing researchers to study the interaction of multiple genes. The study, released last month, found the formula could predict a person’s risk for the most common stroke in the U.S. with 86 percent accuracy—which...