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...drug is discovered, a minimum of five years is needed before the Food and Drug Administration can deem it safe to administer to millions of addicts. We are at least a decade away from even starting such trials. Addiction is a side effect of the positive evolutionary pressures to respond to pleasurable stimuli by seeking repeat stimulation. Alcoholics Anonymous is one form of therapy that we can depend on to be effective in reducing addictive behavior. Brain scans will someday lead to improved therapy, but not for many years to come. David P. Vernon, Tucson, Ariz...
...Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit group that focuses on campaign finance reform, characterized the bill as "landmark," despite some compromises. "With legislation there's never perfection, but this delivers on the commitment that was made by the Democratic leadership to respond in fundamental ways to the corruption scandals of the last Congress...
...moved along the hall on the second floor where the police chief, al-Quraishy, and his two deputies, Ra'aid Shaker and Majed Hanoon, kept their offices. Soldiers called the chief's squad of personal bodyguards the "commandos." If there were any sign of trouble, the commandos would typically respond before the Iraqi police. But this time they barely moved as Diaz and other Americans rushed by. "I didn't really think much of it at the time, but very soon after, that became very strange," says Diaz, who came to believe that whoever was attacking the center had help...
...signs aren't promising. Rather than trying to push the rival parties back into real peace negotiations, Blair's mission has been defined as being to strengthen the institutions of the Palestinian Authority. To which a cynic might respond: What Palestinian Authority...
Gross declined to comment for this story, and O'Brien did not respond to an e-mail request for comment...