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...through puberty," says Dr. Adrian Dobs, co-author of a paper on the endocrine effects of the drug in the upcoming Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. "But the abnormalities seen are not really clinically significant." Despite tales of male potheads growing breasts, the long-term effects on adult glands are uncertain...
...time when the advertising market for much of the rest of the media is still uncertain, are the networks seeing such rosy times? "It's counterintuitive," admits Tim Spengler, executive vice president at Initiative Media, a media-buying agency that billed more than $10 billion in U.S. advertising last year. Historically, he points out, significant increases in ad spending don't occur until a weak economy has begun to turn around. "What we've seen instead," Spengler says, "are clients saying, 'We need to go for it. We need to support our brands for the long-term viability of those...
...recent disclosure of North Korea’s secret program to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb is, in no uncertain terms, a threat to regional stability and world peace. North Korea clearly breached the terms of both the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which it signed in 1988, and the 1994 Framework Agreement with the U.S. It has unquestionably shown itself to be dangerous and untrustworthy...
...best, then, forensics is an uncertain business, the onion-peeling exercise of investigating a crime using everything from shoe-leather detective work to the forensic accounting applied to Enron-type cases. Crimes of passion or violence, however, require a whole different set of tools, and it's here that much of the new science is found...
Meanwhile the central administration is working toward a possible decision this summer on the shape of a future campus in Allston. While much is uncertain about the timetable and logistics of this development project, those involved say it could eventually cost billions of dollars...