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...very idea of a drug so powerful and transformative inevitably had its naysayers. Critics complained Prozac and its siblings were prescribed too liberally and were still unproven. Some previously sound patients reported turning violent or fantasizing about killing themselves after starting the drug and used a "Prozac defense" in court. Others appeared on talk shows calling themselves "Prozac survivors." (Despite anecdotal evidence linking antidepressants to violent behavior, scientists have reached no conclusive answer as to whether the drugs are to blame...
...Twelve percent may not sound like a lot," says Brian Wansink, professor of marketing at Cornell and director of its food and brand lab. "But this goes on every four to eight hours for up to four days. So it really adds up to the point of ineffectiveness or even danger." Increasing numbers of over-the-counter medications come with dosing cups, but many people lose them, don't like them or don't know how to use them and simply feel more comfortable with a spoon...
...kinds of very basic, human-level details security people have looked for since Islamist terrorism rose as a threat," the European official explains. "But these are also basic details that can now get overlooked as surveillance becomes more technical and computerized and people wait for a warning beep to sound. Yes, Abdulmutallab should have been entered into U.S. systems, but even without that, someone somewhere should have seen these other details and checked them out." (Read "The Lessons of Flight...
...week over comments from British authorities that the domestic spy agency MI5 had given U.S. authorities early intelligence on Abdulmutallab. (It hadn't, because British authorities found no evidence that the Nigerian had been radicalized while studying in London from 2005 to 2008 and thus had no reason to sound alarm bells...
...decided for good, no matter how far up the line this case goes. Gay marriage is legal in five states, and no decision by the U.S. high court would preclude other states from expanding those ranks. "It is definitely true that the case (even if unsuccessful) would not sound the death knell for same-sex marriage," Marcosson says. "States are permitted to do things that they are not required to do by the federal Constitution...