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Buried on page 795 of President Obama's budget, released last Thursday, is a paragraph banning the federal funding of needle-exchange programs for drug addicts - an apparent about-face on his campaign promise to overturn that longstanding ban. To the further consternation of AIDS and addiction activists, a statement of support for needle exchange was recently removed from the White House website. Is Obama reversing course...
...there has been an overwhelming response to an e-mail that he sent out on Monday night requesting Quad residents to submit their thoughts on the issue. “When you’ve got one out of every four students who are willing to type up a paragraph or two regarding their feelings about the Quad cuts during reading period, you know it’s touched something,” he said. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...editing error, a paragraph was omitted from the online version of the May 5 article "HBS Group Helps Fight Foreclosures," which consequently did not identify former investment banker Brian McGinnis by his full name in the piece...
...However, Adderall does not improve complex thinking tasks. For example, Adderall will not improve reading comprehension but will allow the user to go over the paragraph multiple times to obtain the answer. Without the drug, fatigue, boredom, or distractibility might occur. It is also not clear whether Adderall “works” by actually improving performance or by simply improving motivation. It decreases procrastination but will not turn the “no” of a defiant child into a “yes” for getting homework done...
...additional sentence at the end of this paragraph is redacted in the copy made public Thursday. Later in the same memo, Bybee concludes that "an individual placed in a box, even an individual with a fear of insects, would not reasonably feel threatened with severe physical pain or suffering if a caterpiller was placed in the box." Bybee adds, however, that the interrogators should not tell Zubaydah that the insect sting "would produce death or severe pain...