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Should Professors Cheech and Chong ever receive university tenure teaching the medical history of their favorite subject, the course pack would be surprisingly thick. As early as 2737 B.C., the mystical Emperor Shen Neng of China was prescribing marijuana tea for the treatment of gout, rheumatism, malaria and, oddly enough, poor memory. The drug's popularity as a medicine spread throughout Asia, the Middle East and down the eastern coast of Africa, and certain Hindu sects in India used marijuana for religious purposes and stress relief. Ancient physicians prescribed marijuana for everything from pain relief to earache to childbirth. Doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...indigo and turned the flanking trees into almost free-floating pools of pigment. With one eye on the crackling Fauvist pictures that Henri Matisse and André Derain had exhibited in Paris a few years earlier, he was on the way to letting form and color alone become the subject of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worlds Within | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

After the terminations, Harvard now has $3.1 billion of debt subject to interest rate swap agreements...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Pays $500 Million To Cut Losses | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...also said she hopes to have each subject area within SEAS contribute to enhancing the school-wide curriculum, adding that she plans to maintain SEAS as a small, interdisciplinary school without departments...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEAS Dean Charts Course | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...details of a plan to transfer much of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium for enrichment abroad into harmless fuel rods is unlikely to be affected. But in future talks with the Western powers and Russia and China, Iran could take the bombings as a pretext to change the subject from its nuclear program, putting its own security concerns and accusations against the U.S. on the agenda. Back in Tehran, the attacks may fuel the arguments of hard-liners for a more uncompromising response to Western demands and reinforce the narrative of Iran being under external attack, which President Mahmoud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a Bombing in Iran Could Be Bad News for Obama | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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