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...avoid problems. Abusers have no such recourse for a drug that acts so quickly that they often injure themselves immediately by falling. Earley says that a center that specializes in drug abuse among medical professionals started to see early signs of propofol abuse five years ago. "Now it's part of the screening for all physicians who come here. Do you use intravenous propofol?" says Earley. "I wouldn't have believed this if you had asked me that five years...
...electric autobahn is clearly taking hold in Germany. The German government last week unveiled a "national development plan" to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020, pledging to provide $715 million from the country's economic stimulus package toward funding for research and development. Part of the plan involves developing a network of electric filling stations along German roads, with waist-high sockets for electric-car owners to recharge their vehicles...
...need for stricter control of the Puer industry became clear two years ago, when the Puer market went on a destabilizing roller-coaster ride. Some Chinese buy tea as an investment, much like Europeans buy wines. In the early part of the decade, thousands of cash-rich urbanites poured their savings into the Puer, causing prices to double, then triple. "People were buying anything," says David Lee Hoffman, a California collector. By 2007, the finest aged Puer was - quite literally - worth its weight in gold. As demand soared, however, quality suffered, fakes flooded the market and prices fell...
...questionnaires asked them to rate their level of agreement or disagreement with statements like "I am making a lot of changes this month.") And surprisingly, those undergoing more changes were significantly more likely to have picked the British crisps over the Lay's. (See pictures: "What the World Eats, Part...
...making it nearly impossible to demonstrate on the streets, Karroubi is taking a different tack from Mousavi. The opposition front-runner announced the creation of a new movement, the Path of Green Hope, but as a broad social movement rather than a full-fledged political party. Karroubi, for his part, has said that he won't be joining the Path of Green Hope. Instead, he's focusing his efforts on holding the government on an issue that has clearly resonated with the Iranian public - the allegations of rape and abuse of opposition supporters arrested in the postelection crackdown...