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...prime time yet," says University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Martha Farah, but she can foresee a day when police academies, for example, might scan prospective cadets to weed out racists. "If we could, in fact, define racism," Farah says, "this would be a potentially useful tool--but with very serious issues of privacy and informed consent...
...heart rate, so it could be dangerous for the elderly. Other memory enhancers, like Ritalin or amphetamines, used by college students to cram for exams, are highly addictive. And some of the experimental drugs McGaugh is testing in rats can cause seizures. Unfortunately, he says, for people with truly serious memory problems, "existing drugs are not yet powerful enough or nice enough...
...test his theory, Pitman went to the the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and intercepted patients who had suffered serious traumas. He gave some of them propranolol, a drug that interferes with adrenaline uptake. The rest got placebos. He also had them tape-record accounts of the traumas. When he played back the tapes eight months later, eight of 14 placebo patients developed higher heart rates, sweaty palms and other signs of PTSD. None of the patients on the real drug had such responses...
...attention, class. Pachter, whose clients include Microsoft, DaimlerChrysler and Merck, strides in with her tailored black pantsuit, black purse and black heels, looking serious. Are people suddenly ruder? she asks. The need for etiquette tune-ups has become direr as a result of changes in the business world, Pachter tells her students--more women, more international commerce and new technologies like cell phones, BlackBerrys and e-mail...
...diesels or some combination of them all. If they don't, they'll lose another generation of American drivers to the Japanese, whose hybrid technology alone has a five-year headstart on Detroit's. For the petroleum industry, it's one more unwelcome sign that America just may get serious about kicking its oil habit...