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Does it make you stupid? Potheads are dumber than nonusers, but only a little. Earlier this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study of 102 near-daily marijuana users who wanted to quit. The authors found that the longer subjects had toked up, the worse their memories and attention spans. But they were hardly like Gobi, the Saturday Night Live wastoid who is so ruined he can barely talk. Participants who had used cannabis regularly for an average of 10 years fared significantly worse on only two of 40 indices of cognitive functioning (they had particular...
...getting pressure on the quarterback, allowing the secondary to lock on to our man for much less time,” said Raftery, who earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance last Saturday. “[Mann] won’t make many stupid mistakes, but if we do our responsibilities right, there is no reason why we can’t make some big plays against...
...into “The Game before The Game.” With the Ivy Crown likely on the line, the Crimson will face a Penn team that might be even better than last year’s squad. If Harvard can hold on to the ball and avoid stupid penalties, the Crimson has a shot at consecutive undefeated Ivy League seasons for the first time in school history...
...society. Improve living conditions and you will cure the problems. Even mental illness and homosexuality were the result of family dynamics, went this line of reasoning. These notions, of course, flew in the face of everything conservatives held dear--the idea that the lower classes were inherently stupid and lazy, for example, and that rehabilitating lawbreakers was an exercise in futility--which may have been part of their appeal...
...flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...