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...still chapter one for Amazon. I think there'll be more happening on the Internet over the next 10 years than in the last 10. Over the next decade, the raw materials--technology, computers, disc space, bandwidth--will get cheaper and more powerful at a very rapid rate. Our job is to figure out how to layer invention on top of those raw materials to make things that actually matter to people...
...that kids can easily become addicted to painkillers like Oxycontin or Vicodin, antianxiety medicines like Valium or Xanax, or attention-deficit-disorder drugs like Ritalin and Adderall. Taken without proper supervision, those medicines can send kids to the emergency room. They can lead to difficulty breathing, a drop or rapid increase in heart rate or trouble responding when driving a car, especially when the drugs are combined with alcohol, as they often are. Pain medications, which are also powerful nervous-system depressants, are particularly dangerous--and especially prized. "If I have something good, like Oxycontin, it might be worth...
Haynes said that efforts to find a vaccine have been difficult because HIV/AIDS researchers do not yet have the tools to battle the difficulties—like rapid mutation—posed by the HIV retrovirus...
Griffin is unconcerned by the rapid turnover the Winthrop St. location has seen recently. Tommy Doyles will be the third bar and restaurant to occupy the location in three years...
...Billboard's urban charts and on MTV are Southerners like the Ying Yang Twins, Ludacris, Mike Jones and, of course, Atlanta duo Outkast, which last year became the first hip-hop act to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume...