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...back in the 1960s—when guys seemed averse to razors and grooming, girls were banished to Radcliffe Yard, and students of both genders stormed into University Hall to protest whatever they felt like protesting—the Harvard Psilocybin Project was in full swing [see correction below]. The project, which involved administering psilocybin (a consciousness-expanding drug) to research subjects, brought together Timothy Leary, Huston Smith, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), and former Crimson editor Andrew T. Weil ’63, four men who became major players in the counterculture movement and, as Lattin claims, "killed...
...them down never went near their skivvies. "My guess is, if they were doing the truly intrusive pat-down designed to find even three ounces of explosives," says Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, "we probably would have heard cries of protest from travelers." The lack of furor suggests the pat-downs were probably annoying and not much else. (See why it's difficult to detonate a bomb midflight...
...women's cell block with threats of violence, punishing anyone who challenged her. In 2006 she was transferred for beating up a fellow prisoner. Declaring she was too disruptive to mix with other inmates, officials put Muna in solitary confinement. In 2007, however, she went on hunger strike to protest her isolation; she was kept in her cell for up to 23 hours a day. In June 2008 she was moved to the Damon Prison in northern Israel, where she has told visitors the conditions are slightly better...
TUMULT IN TEHRAN After incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's June presidential election by what many considered an implausibly wide margin, millions of Iranians massed in protest. Opposition supporters braved beatings by paramilitary thugs and sidestepped a crackdown on the media by spreading news through Facebook and Twitter. There was no happy ending for the protesters--Ahmadinejad's win was certified--but the popular dissatisfaction they embodied marked an unprecedented, ongoing challenge to Iran's conservative theocracy...
...Tajrish - a center for shoppers, families and fun-seekers - had not seen a protest since the June election. Tonight, a crowd of thousands cried out from Tehran's northernmost square and anticipated their own Karbala...