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MARIJUANA The so-called demon weed turned out to be a lot less devilish than advertised. The popular image of the goofy, smoky slacker notwithstanding, a 2003 study in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society found that even among regular users, there is no proof that pot causes irreversible cognitive damage. Memory does get cloudy, and learning new information does get harder, but those effects fade if the user does kick the habit. The drug may also diminish libido and fertility. (So much for its promised free-love properties.) And as with any intoxicating chemical, pot use can become...
...reading period and finals might be a bit jealous of Mauro C. Braunstein ’06. “In January, I am doing one paper and one take home final. And that is it. Teeheehee,” he said, chuckling. But Braunstein is not a slacker. Instead, he is one of a fairly large number of students who will leave for winter recess with at least one class finished for the semester. For Braunstein, this class is Earth and Planetary Sciences 132, “Introduction to Meteorology.” Other classes that end before...
...flesh out terrorists, excuse making. But making them human shows us they are not superhuman: they make mistakes, they get emotional, they have doubts. Each of them may, at some point, be stopped. In Paradise Now, from Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, Said (Kais Nashif) seems like an ordinary slacker auto mechanic until he is chosen to undertake a suicide bombing, which he volunteered for long before. Said comes across not as a news-article composite but as a believable, mixed-up young man. In the U.S. he might have been the star of a coming-of-age story...
...don’t foresee any change in the near future either. James Dean and his motorcycle will always rev my engine. I can’t help being attracted to Heathcliffs, Danny Zukos, and Johnny Castles, and I won’t stop gravitating toward the slacker in class who appreciates my study habits and takes advantage of my willing ear. Despite this penchant for punishment, my relationships are far from doomed. Wrong-doing rebels may still breed danger on the main stage, but we good women can pull the curtain down on our failing Florence Nightingale...
...1990s, the Stockton, Calif., band Pavement earned a devoted following for its brand of fuzzy, slacker rock. Among the group's admirers are these four young jazz luminaries, who join forces to cover eight Pavement songs. It's an unlikely enterprise, and not every arrangement works--the catchy hit Cut Your Hair is reinterpreted as a schmaltzy R&B ballad--but it's hard to resist music this fun. On songs like Here and Summer Babe, the rhythm section lays down pulsating grooves as saxman Carter uncovers the bluesy tunefulness buried beneath Pavement's trademark static. The result...