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...council had allocated more than $10,000 to the HCC for the two concerts that never took place—an action that left some council members regretting their decision and questioning the organization of Lee’s pet project...
PLACEBO POWER Move over, Prozac. It looks as if sugar pills can chase the blues away too. A six-week clinical trial in which doctors used PET scans to examine the brains of 17 patients hospitalized for depression shows that high-priced antidepressants and dummy pills both cause visible changes in the mood-regulating regions of the brain. Asked how they felt, patients on fake and real pills alike reported that their symptoms improved. But don't tear up your prescription just yet. The catch? The subjects' moods may have lifted in part because they had left their usual worries...
...Russia policy on his personal chemistry with Putin. But the distinction is hard to discern. After all, the next time Bush needs to talk to his friend in the Kremlin, that once mysterious former KGB agent, he will probably call Rice into the Oval Office and, using his pet nickname for the Russian leader, say, as he has in the past, "Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone...
...anyone who's ever had a pet knows, the joke's on us: animals - with the exception of all poodles and the occasional sissy hamster - are not absolutely controllable. We do maintain sway over cats and dogs, primarily because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little...
Getting official approval from the City of Cambridge for the underground passageway remains the last obstacle in the way of a pet Harvard project, which would build a major new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS...