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...while many students appear to be moving away from pure government careers, Kennedy School faculty say they are confident that the school's focus remains the same...
Medical scientists have discovered that flashing pulses of pure, white light at closed eyes causes patients to see kaleidoscopic images. They also noted that by controlling patterns of audio and visual pulses, they could cause the brain to change states. Researchers like Thomas Budzynski of the St. Luke Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash., learned that inducing an alpha state could help relax patients and ease chronic pain. Creating theta states helped people to improve motivation and even stop smoking...
...staff position is correct: the man hanging a Confederate flag in his window is indulging in a legitimate but insensitive form of speech. But his intentions--pure or otherwise--have no relevance to this issue...
Collectors were dumb struck last week, after Japanese officials disclosed that the country had been flooded with at least 103,000 bogus Hirohito coins, worth an estimated $71 million. The fakes were also made of pure gold and were so well crafted that many of them had even been accepted by the Bank of Japan. Because the raw material of the coins costs less than half their face value, the potential for an easy 100% markup had apparently inspired a well-fixed free-lance minter...
That number could soon soar even higher. In the past, street heroin was 6% to 10% pure and an addict had to take it intravenously to get high. Many cocaine users are unwilling to break through the "needle barrier" and inject themselves, in part out of fear of being infected with AIDS from a shared needle. But for the past several years, less diluted heroin from Southeast Asia that can be smoked has been widely available on the streets of New York, Boston and other cities. At $10 a 0.05-gram bag, the so-called China White is cheap enough...