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Jackson's death on June 25 has brought the subject of propofol abuse from obscure medical research papers to the celebrity-laden Web pages of TMZ. Until Jackson's death, there was little talk about it in celebrity circles. "I didn't know much about it," says Chopra. Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Celebrity Rehab, says he had never seen the drug abused by his hard-living Hollywood clientele. Home use of Diprivan "is something I had never heard of," Pinsky tells TIME. "I'd have an easier time believing that Martians had set down outside this building...
Most of us are neither pilots nor astronauts. We are not trained to steer large, hurtling hulks of steel and gasoline while manipulating small computers. So there's something blindingly obvious about the risks of texting while driving. Yet research is beginning to show that driving while simply talking on a cell phone - including using hands-free technology - can prove dangerous, even deadly...
Meanwhile, the CAS is calling for more draconian measures. Now that it has uncovered the NHTSA research, it is filing a petition calling for all new cars to have a device installed that allows only emergency calls. "We do not see how [NHTSA] can turn down a problem that's rapidly turning out to be as bad as drunk driving," says Clarence Ditlow, CAS's executive director. "We're asking that technology be installed in cars to disable their cell phones whenever you shift out of park...
...insufficient attentiveness to risk. Journalists have lately been having a field day with a study by two Cambridge University professors, J.M. Coates and J. Herbert, who sampled the testosterone levels of London traders and found they positively correlated with high-profit trading days. Of course, nobody harped on this research back when housing prices were doubling and people were using their home-equity credit lines to buy third cars. But to paraphrase Richard Nixon's comment about Keynesians, we are all feminists...
...foresees the kind of unrest that followed the disputed Iranian election in June, each candidate's lack of an "organized mechanism" to cope with masses of angered, loosely knit partisans could allow the situation to boil over with time, says Haroun Mir, director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies. "If one group feels left out, it will create problems for everybody," Mir says. Indeed, Abdullah's campaign manager told an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper last month to predict street violence if Abdullah didn't win. (Abdullah, in damage-control mode, said his manager was misquoted...