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...analyzed nicotine levels in cigarettes from Phillip Morris USA, Reynolds American and Lorillard Tobacco. Cigarette manufacturers are required by the state of Massachusetts to disclose nicotine yields each year. HSPH professor Gregory Connolly, another principal of the study, said in a statement, “our findings call into serious question whether the tobacco industry has changed at all in its pursuit of addicting smokers since signing the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 with the State Attorneys General.” However, the study’s leaders were careful to note that lower nicotine content in cigarettes...
...when the physiological activity of the brain ceases, as far as anyone can tell the person's consciousness goes out of existence. Attempts to contact the souls of the dead (a pursuit of serious scientists a century ago) turned up only cheap magic tricks, and near death experiences are not the eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain. In September, a team of Swiss neuroscientists reported that they could turn out-of-body experiences on and off by stimulating the part of the brain in which vision...
...uniter and not a divider. With his proposal to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, Bush is indeed bringing Democrats and Republicans together. The problem for him is that the bipartisan front they are forming is against him. It has the potential to lead to the most serious foreign policy confrontation between a President and Congress since the Vietnam...
...November. “People came to this meeting not knowing how easy it was to strike common ground,” said James J. McCarthy, a member of the coalition who is the Agassiz professor of biological oceanography and Pforzheimer House master. “We have a serious commitment in both communities to advance this agenda.” Eric Chivian, director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, spearheads the six-week-old coalition along with longtime friend Richard Cizik, a leader in the Washington-based National Association of Evangelicals...
...research assistant, remembers him as a “brilliant, personable, and obviously unique” person. Tribe said that Obama’s theoretical perspective on applying modern physics to law was “very impressive.” “He is obviously a serious intellectual as well as a fantastic campaigner who can reach across boundaries,” Tribe said. “He will make an extraordinarily fine president.” Wilkins, too, vows to be “supportive of him in any way possible” and said that...