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...with just four in 1968 and nine in 1974. Though music, news and sports constitute the bulk of network fare, the radio dial is increasingly filling up with daily, weekly or monthly "longform" programming, from music/variety series like NBC's Live from the Hard Rock Café (with Host Paul Shaffer of TV's Late Night with David Letterman) to national talk/call-in shows, many inspired by the phenomenal success of Mutual Radio's seven-year-old Larry King Show...
...1920s. That was the epoch of Agatha Christie and Ronald Knox, of G.K. Chesterton and S.S. Van Dine. The mystery craze gripped every age, sex and temperament; it spread so wide that it was parodized by P.G. Wodehouse. Back then it seemed possible to believe, as Playwright Anthony Shaffer later joshed in Sleuth, that mysteries were "the normal recreation of noble minds...
...cursory examination of the current scientific literature reveals confusion and lack of consensus over whether marijuana has a valid medical use, even over whether it harms its users at all. Dr. Howard Shaffer, the editor of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and Associate Professor and Director of the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School, wrote in an e-mail “The scientific community is fractured on the medical use issue. Some argue that medical marijuana can be very useful for dealing with the symptoms of certain diseases or the treatment side effects. Others argue that we already have...
...available for “well-designed studies” through the Department of Health and Human Services. Still, the government is far from encouraging this sort of research, and there are many bureaucratic hurdles that must be cleared before such research can be undertaken. According to Dr. Shaffer, these obstacles significantly inhibit scientific interest and effort towards understanding the medical applications of marijuana. “There is some research going on regarding medical marijuana, but it is limited,” said Shaffer. “Scientists need special permission from the government…The application process...
...Shaffer called this notion “completely false,” adding that the field of addiction research is only beginning to reach a point where scientists can investigate the social impact...