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...preliminary data are promising, scientists haven't definitively shown that the drug can safely treat nausea or pain or anything, really. Some experts claim the U.S. government has sabotaged medical-marijuana research, and there is evidence to support them. Even so, in the past few years scientists have made rapid advances in their basic understanding of how Cannabis sativa works. By 1993, researchers had found the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids, the psychoactive chemicals in the plant (THC is the main one, but there are at least 65 others). Since then, there has been important new work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pot Good For You? | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Polls and ballots do not make a liberal democracy. Consequently, it is impossible to distinguish our friends and foes solely by the outward trappings of democracy. Generals Pinochet and Park oversaw the rapid economic development of Chile and South Korea, and Pakistan under the nominally elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif helped North Korea build nuclear weapons. Elections are desirable as long as they lead to good results over the long run. The Iraqi people, having no experience with democracy and accustomed to dictatorship, are in no condition to exercise the responsibility of popular sovereignty. Real democracy is less likely than...

Author: By Ebon Y. Lee, | Title: Elections Can Wait | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...with cheap labor and tax-free exporting zones. In the 1980s the country also invested in tourism and offshore banking. Economic growth has exceeded 5% a year over the past two decades, and per capita income is now more than $3,500, one of the highest in Africa. But rapid population growth and competition from other textile-producing countries have hurt. "We have to create new opportunities," says Kemraz Mohee, head of the National Computer Board. "Our kids' expectations are higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Wired: Cyber Paradise | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...doing so, faculty members were hoping to remedy what many believed to be long-standing problems associated with the courses, including redundancy of high school chemistry curricula and an unreasonably rapid pace...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Laud Chem Course | 10/25/2002 | See Source »

...course structure, the students are gaining a deeper understanding of the material presented, which wasn’t always the case in Chem 10, given the extremely rapid pace,” says Andy W. Ho, the other head teaching fellow for Chemistry...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Laud Chem Course | 10/25/2002 | See Source »

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