Word: reading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...head, 'I should really get a drink,'" says Bob. "It never appeared during the dinner either so that was the eureka moment." He continues to take baclofen and now drinks about two or three times per week, no more than a beer or two at a time. (Read about the many faces of addiction...
...based on experiences like Ameisen's. And yet even if the apparent anti-addiction benefits of the drug - which is currently approved by the government to treat muscle spasms - are borne out in human trials, it might do little to persuade most American addiction-treatment providers to use it. (Read "Can Amphetamines Help Cure Cocaine Addiction...
...actually mail out its 10-question form to every U.S. household until next March. But the job for cities, states and organizations representing every stripe of American society is to get as many people as possible to mail the form back, and that work is already happening. (Read a bio of Robert M. Groves, Obama's pick as the Census chief...
...California is handing out maps of neighborhoods with low participation rates in the last Census so community groups can target where to knock on doors. Roman Catholic priests near the U.S.-Mexico border are readying picture books to more easily explain the process to people who don't read well or at all. The mayor of New Orleans is telling members of the Hurricane Katrina diaspora to use their old addresses - though that one isn't kosher. "The Census," says Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, "is all about financial resources and power...
...requested the kidney $160,000. The payment would be laundered through what Rosenbaum described first as a "congregation," then as a charity. According to published reports, Rosenbaum ran the Brooklyn branch of Kav Lachayim, a charity for sick children that was once supported by convicted financier Bernie Madoff. (Read about how kidney-trafficking works...