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Michael Weisser: I called the police, and I had the telephone company put a tap on my telephone. Two days later I got a package of hate mail, anti-Jewish and anti-black material. We knew it was from Larry Trapp, but we couldn't prove it. We were pretty frightened. It went on that way for a while, and then I talked with my wife Julie, and I said I had to confront this. The only thing I hoped to accomplish was to let him know that I wasn't afraid of him. I was pretty angry...
Weisser: I just kept leaving messages, until finally one day, Larry Trapp, in a fit of anger, picked up the phone. "What do you want?" he said. "You're harassing me! My phone's got a tap on it." I was real quiet and calm. I said I knew he had a hard time getting around and thought he might need a ride to the grocery store. He just got completely quiet, and all the anger went out of his voice, and he said, "I've got that taken care of, but thanks for asking...
Antithesis, or "Anti-thesis," is everything I do to avoid doing my thesis. My antithetical list includes, but is in no way limited to: watching "Spinal Tap" again, buying soap, shopping classes, revising my resume, running, writing long letters to people I am no longer friends with, watching "Spinal Tap" again, doing recommended reading for classes, revising my bibliography, writing papers for other classes and xeroxing articles I will never read...
Would-be reformers are also pushing the FDA to adopt a more strenuous review of drugs after they have been approved for marketing. Such postapproval monitoring is already being tried in Canada, Britain and Sweden, where officials can tap into data from a national health-care system. The reasoning behind the push is quite straightforward. Clinical trials typically include a few thousand people and can therefore pick up only the most obvious and prevalent side effects. Once a drug enters the market, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people start using it, often for sustained periods of time -- when...
...their brain when asked to spell words. By monitoring increases in blood flow, the neuropsychologist found that women use both sides of their head when spelling while men use primarily their left side. Because the area activated on the right side is used in understanding emotions, the women apparently tap a wider range of experience for their task. Intriguingly, the effect occurred only with spelling and not during a memory test...