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...finally starting to pay attention. Its ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold D. ("Doug") Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they could sow more chaos in Afghanistan, which al-Qaeda and the Taliban could exploit to wrest back power. "We need to make a difference in the next couple of years," says Wankel. Miwa Kato, a Kabul-based officer for the U.N.'s Office...
...officer reported that a suspicious plant believed...
marijuana was discovered in the quad of the Warren Alpert Building in Longwood. An officer removed the plant and brought it into the station for further investigation. It was determined that the plant was not marijuana...
...successful, any antimalaria campaign must do two things: treat the illness and prevent the transmission of parasites. Several pilot studies conducted in Africa have proved that combination therapy, in which at least one of the medications is derived from a plant called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, easily destroys drug-resistant malarial parasites in the bloodstream. Using several drugs at once, often in the same pill, greatly decreases the risk that the parasites will become resistant. As an added bonus, artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, acts very quickly, further decreasing the chances of drug resistance...
...thousands of manufactured foods (one appeal: it withstands heat better than alternatives do), is also going into new mid-calorie sodas from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Earlier this year, Splenda was okayed for sale in the European Union. Tate is spending $30 million to expand its sole Splenda plant, in Alabama. The potential catch: many Splenda users are converting from real sugar--Tate's main business. Says Charlie Mills, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in London: "People are forgetting how much of Tate's other business can be threatened by this." --By Barbara Kiviat...