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SWONK: It started with Michael Milken and Henry Kravis, the hostile takeovers. You could actually fire a ceo. It started in the '80s, culminated in the '90s and was a massive trigger point to adopting new technologies more rapidly, and cost cutting becoming a mantra. People are rewarded for cost cutting...
...receptor in the brain. The more you smoke, the less sensitive the receptor becomes. TIME: How is a person's behavior affected? Greenfield : Research shows that the drug leads to impaired memory and coordination. These effects may be long-term and irreversible. There is strong evidence that marijuana can trigger schizophrenia. Then there's demotivational syndrome, an inability to focus on anything beyond the next fix. TIME: Is it addictive? Greenfield : That depends how we define addiction. Cannabis users have to take ever-larger quantities to achieve the desired effect. Studies show that about 10% of users can't stop...
...demand placed on the heart, the more likely a problem will turn up. Using ultrasound or radioactive dyes during a stress test may provide more clues--by showing how well the arteries are supplying blood to various parts of the heart. But here again, small blockages may not trigger any symptoms. Even the gold standard for detecting fatty deposits, an invasive procedure called angiography, can't tell you which plaques are likely to burst--though doctors are starting to experiment with new imaging techniques that may do the trick...
...itself more of a player than the U.S. From as early as the 17th century, many had seen the New World as the linchpin of a particularly optimistic End Times scenario. Unlike earlier believers who thought humans were helpless to influence God's cosmic plan, they thought they could trigger Christ's Millennium by purifying and perfecting America. Ministers preached America as Revelation's New Jerusalem. Many colonists saw the Revolution in millennial terms, with George III as the Antichrist. Those most convinced, whom we would now call Evangelicals, helped shape the nation's culture of civic engagement, founding movements...
...Todd Troost, chairman of neurology at Wake Forest and lead researcher on the botox study, says he is not entirely sure why botox works. "It appears to relax muscles in the head, neck and jaw that when inflamed may trigger migraines," he says. But Troost adds that it also seems to interfere directly with the brain's pain-signaling mechanism...