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The A.M.A. concludes that the lack of "high-quality clinical research ...continues to hamper development of rational public policy" on medical marijuana. Which raises the question, Why, after five millenniums, doesn't such research exist? Two possible answers: First, the government may have rejected cannabis studies to avoid any challenge...
The dispute is costing Vietnam goodwill with Japan, the country's biggest aid donor and trade partner. Officials in Hanoi last week pleaded with the corporations to be sympathetic. "This is an issue of human life," government spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said. But to the Japanese, the quotas don't...
The BCA’s plan to encourage athletic departments to look at minorities when hiring by attempting to hurt them where they’ll notice—in recruiting, and presumably, on the field—may seem like a misguided scheme (indeed, it was concocted by prominent...
In the field of economics, theoretical models are predicated on people behaving rationally. Daniel Kahneman proved otherwise, perhaps because he is not an economist. A professor at Princeton University, Kahneman, 65, is a cognitive psychologist. In his studies he has shown that people are not particularly wise about assessing probability...
Klaus Eckstein hopes that he will never have to go to Zurich. Four years ago the 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, who lives in Cambridge, England, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The disease was successfully treated with chemotherapy and surgery, "but if it returns and can no longer be cured...