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...likely, for example, to fatally overstimulate a healthy heart, cause disorienting hallucinations or pack anywhere near the same euphoric punch as many other drugs. "People die with crack immediately," explains Alexander Glassman, a psychopharmacologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "With cigarettes the problems occur 20 years down the line. Nobody lights up their first cigarette and dies...
...successful cloture motion, which would limit debate, requires 60 votes. Far more than 60 senators have supported the treaty in a series of early-round test votes. Approval of a cloture motion Thursday would begin a 30-hour clock for debate, meaning a vote on the treaty could occur Friday...
...ceremoniously tossed his cooler off the upper deck in protest. "While it may have a number of social causes," says National League President Bart Giamatti, "fan unruliness cannot be separated from the issue of excessive use of alcohol. I have no data, but I would say that more problems occur and more human damage is done because of excessive drinking than because of drugs...
...these immune cells produce such diversity was elucidated during the mid- 1970s by Immunologist Susumu Tonegawa, now at M.I.T., who in 1987 was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievement. Tonegawa proved that the B-cell genes that dictate the production of antibodies occur in distinct segments. These pieces, like cards in the hands of a Las Vegas dealer, are constantly and speedily shuffled into different combinations. Coupled with mutations that occur as B cells divide into plasma cells, such genes, in theory at least, could account for as many as 10 million antibody variations. Other scientists have shown that...
...Porto trial hinged upon whether sexual asphyxia would have been part of a teenage girl's erotic habits. Porto Attorney Barry Slotnick, who defended Subway Gunman Bernhard Goetz, put an expert on the stand who testified that the practice was far more common than people realize, though deaths occur mostly among males engaged in solitary...