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...MDMA in psychotherapy, involving 30 victims of rape in Spain diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. In this country, the FDA has approved only one study. In 1995 Dr. Charles Grob, a UCLA psychiatrist, used it as a pain reliever for end-stage cancer patients. In the first phase of the study, he concluded the drug is safe if used in controlled situations under careful monitoring. The body is much less likely to overheat in such a setting. Grob believes MDMA's changes to brain cells are accelerated and perhaps triggered entirely by overheating...
Every drug has to go through three testing phases before it gets the FDA's O.K. In Phase I it is tried on a handful of human patients after extensive testing on animals. Researchers are interested mainly in determining the harmful effects of the treatment, not necessarily how well it works. Indeed, only about half of all cancer agents make it beyond Phase I. Of those that do, about 70% flunk Phase II, during which scientists attempt to find out whether the drug actually does what it is supposed...
...Moscow and possibly Beijing, too, to deploy more missiles in order to achieve the capacity to overwhelm a U.S. interceptor system, therefore maintaining the deterrent value of their own arsenals. Although President Clinton is committed to making a decision this summer over whether to proceed with building the initial phase of the system, he may be tempted to use the system's patchy performance in prototype testing as an excuse to leave the decision to the next president and neutralize it as an election issue...
...truth is, Nokia has had an amazing run, tripling sales and driving its stock price up 2000% in five years. Industry experts give Nokia much of the credit for the world's growing infatuation with mobile communications, and few doubt that the next phase of the wireless revolution will also be led by the Finns. A whopping 70% of the inhabitants of this small country straddling the Arctic Circle carry mobile phones--the world's highest penetration (and more than double the U.S. rate). It's a phenomenon attributable to liberal telecom-licensing policies (which stimulated early innovation...
Life cycles for people and plants, for businesses, industries, economies and entire civilizations have four distinct quarters: gestation, growth, maturity and decline. The Internet is the main event of the information economy's mature quarter, the last phase of it being marked by the widespread use of cheap chips and wireless technology that will let everything connect to everything else. Life cycles overlap. So the information economy will mature in the years ahead as the bioeconomy completes its gestation and finally takes off into its growth quarter during the 2020s...