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Found in plants like the common snowdrop, galantamine is approved by the FDA as the Alzheimer's drug Razadyne. It's marketed to healthy people as a memory enhancer, but no reliable studies support the claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Can You Find Concentration in a Bottle? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Gazing out on soon-to-be renovated Weld Hall, the thin, wiry Briton who sported shades at President Neil L. Rudenstine's inauguration and who prefaced a budget discussion with a story about a snowdrop, laments his lack of rest...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weary Knowles Eyes FAS Budget Shortfall | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

DEAN OF the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles often tells his colleagues the story of a Russian sentry ordered to stand over the spot where Empress Catherine saw a snowdrop budding years before. The moral: Faculty members shouldn't cling unnecessarily to past traditions. They need to look ahead for ways to cut down spending and reduce the budget deficit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ask the Students | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...Captain shoots up Snowdrop, tenderly sticking a new needle into her creamy forearm. He "boots" her until she glows. Laurie, wearing a faded peignoir, picks up scattered pieces of bloody pink toilet paper and puts a fresh roll on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...little while, the Captain and Snowdrop head home. "I'm quitting next week," the Captain says as he pauses on Fourth Street to look at a mural on a tenement wall, an eagle clutching a hypo above the legend in red letters: COME FLY WITH ME FOOL! Just before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, the Captain spots a young white couple crouching together in the front seat of a Mercedes. The man throws a bloody rag out the window. "They just couldn't wait to get home before shooting up," he tells Snowdrop. She smiles back, still glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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