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...reads about it will see that we as a people are being grossly misled about marijuana,” Grinspoon said. “Most people associate marijuana with crime, mayhem, chromosomal damage, and brain cell depletion. But I discovered that marijuana is just as versatile and non-toxic as penicillin. It really is a wonder drug.”J. Allan Hobson, a professor of psychiatry at HMS, echoed his colleague’s sentiments about marijuana’s medical benefits but was less optimistic about its prospects for legalization.In Massachusetts, marijuana users can receive jail time...
...studying the early stages of disease. “With this strategy, it would be possible to study virtually any human disease,” said Harvard researcher Thomas P. Maniatis, who was a member of the Harvard team. The scientists announced yesterday that they have discovered that a toxic molecule produced by non-neuron support cells causes the patterns of nerve cell death found in sufferers of Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. A significant amount of previous research into nerve diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s has focused primarily...
...alternative which they found in low budget flicks that spanned several genres—kung fu, horror, and car-chase, being just a few—which were played incessantly at the grungiest of local theaters.The plot of “Planet Terror” involves zombie-producing toxic gas (just go with it) released by renegade military gang led by a gun-totting Bruce Willis, a knife wielding hero and his one-legged Go-Go-Dancing biddy with a machine gun prosthetic (Freddy Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, respectively). Add blood, guts, brains, shooting, and general goopy splattering all around...
...says Rich. “Like in [“Mating Throughout History”], the hugely muscular guy gets the girl, but he also is going to die, because he doesn’t have the bizarre genetic mutation that allows him to breathe toxic gas. And the other guy’s going to survive, but he’s going to be pretty lonely. Everyone in that piece sort of has an equally tough time.”Rich, who signed a two-book deal with Random House, now faces the challenge of following up his debut...
...regulations and concerns. Only two of the sensor nodes currently mounted collect weather data, while the rest are relay nodes that transmit the data, according to Bers. Welsh said that in the project’s early stages, the idea responded to a homeland security concern: monitoring levels of toxic waste. The researchers decided to pitch the project to the National Science Foundation, where the project was a “natural fit,” he said. The project began to receive funding from the National Science Foundation last August. According to Majid Ezzati, one of the project?...