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...there's one thing Belgium is known for above all else - more than Tintin, chocolate and female tennis stars - it's beer. The Belgians have a rich beer-making tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, with more than 125 breweries today; beer, it is said, is the very lifeblood of the country. But trouble is, ahem, brewing. Supplies of Belgium's top brands - Stella Artois, Hoegaarden and Leffe - are rapidly running low in bars and supermarkets as unions have set up blockades outside the country's largest breweries to protest proposed job cuts...
...hope had been that health care wouldn't take this long and that we would've teed up both energy and financial reform before the end of the first year. If there's one thing I have learned ... it always takes longer than you think...
Neither of the Canadian patients fit that bill, but they did have one thing in common: illegal drug use, says Dr. Nancy Zhu, who treated the patients during her hematology fellowship at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. "We were theorizing that maybe it was something in the cocaine," she says. (See how cocaine scrambles genes in the brain...
...throughout the body, which can boost heart rate - and studies of cocaine users show that they associate jumps in heart rate with getting high, spurring good feelings even before the drug hits the brain. A cut that accelerates heart rate might make them think they're getting the real thing. In the brain, levamisole may affect the same acetylcholine receptors activated by nicotine, another addictive drug that raises dopamine levels - which may be another clue to levamisole's lure. (See pictures of the antinarcotics police in Guinea-Bissau and Liberia...
...thing I was really struck by, listening to you the past few days, is the degree to which the themes that you're talking about are so much like the themes that President Obama was talking about 15 months ago: I'm going to change the way they do things in Washington. Why do you think he hasn't been able to achieve that? And why do you think you can change Washington, as opposed to Washington changing you? First of all, I have a wife and kids, and they keep me very grounded, and I've always had that...