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Similarly, St. John's wort, a popular supplement taken to treat anxiety, depression and sleep disorders, is believed to prolong or increase the effects of some narcotic drugs and anesthetic agents. Ginseng, an herb taken to boost vitality, has been associated with high blood pressure and rapid beating of the heart--conditions that could be deadly in the operating room...
SERGEI VOYNOV This Uzbek track coach said 15 vials of HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE found in his luggage were to treat his baldness. He was expelled and fined...
...Texas Governor, Bush helped secure the tax cuts that were his No. 1 priority by underfunding Medicaid and delaying a state law that would have expanded its coverage of poor children; he also failed to pursue federal grants to treat aids patients and indigent adults. But it is also true that in 1997 he backed a noble effort to raise business taxes to boost school funding and reduce reliance on property taxes. He fought hard for the plan, which originated with Democrats in the state legislature, but came up short. In other words, Gore's cartoon version of Bush...
...Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade was a result of African strength. Europeans bought slaves, they did not obtain them through European-led raids...
...this consciousness. Turing's test goes as follows: Imagine you are talking with an unknown entity on, say, instant messenger. If after an unlimited period of time you cannot tell if the entity you are communicating with is a computer or a flesh-and-blood human, then we must treat this computer as conscious. Turing's point was in many ways an epistemological **2) or empirical?** one: We can only define consciousness by the behavior we observe in other entities. So, basically, because you believe your roommates to be conscious only because of the responses that they give in conversation...