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...Bird Johnson, numb with sorrow and shock, turned to Mrs. John Connally and whispered: "Oh, Nellie, I feel that I am onstage for a part I never rehearsed." The First Lady learned her lines quickly. While her husband was al most constantly under fire, Lady Bird rarely became a target - except, perhaps, for cracks about her babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady Bird: "I've been many places, and I've heard nothing but admiration...
Tribe, the Loeb University Professor, said that this early advantage makes him an even bigger target for his Democratic challengers...
...methamphetamine and nicotine, making it possible for more of the drug to enter and activate nerve cells. "Receptor density is thought to be an amplifier," says Frank Vocci, director of pharmacotherapies at NIDA. "[Chemically] blocking D3 interrupts an awful lot of the drugs' effects. It is probably the hottest target in modulating the reward system...
Another fundamental target for addiction treatments is the stress network. Animal studies have long shown that stress can increase the desire for drugs. In rats trained to self-administer a substance, stressors such as a new environment, an unfamiliar cage mate or a change in daily routine push the animals to depend on the substance even more...
...busy with her duties to tour her domain. Not everyone will recognize Smith when she does; the Home Secretary's staff have been reduced to pinching outdated photos from her personal website to circulate around the building. But with terrorist groups having seemingly decided that Britain remains a rich target for their operations, whether or not Blair is the nation's Prime Minister, a lack of recognition won't trouble Smith for long...