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America's "War On Drugs" has cost untold billions, made a mockery of the Bill of Rights and been a total failure. Congratulations to those European governments that have dropped this bankrupt policy [WORLD, Aug. 20]. The only ones who ever benefited were the police, the prison industry and drug dealers. RICHARD WEIL St. Paul, Minn...
...doses or with another drug called gemfibrozil--were at greater risk. Bayer decided to drop Baycol in part because its attempts to alert doctors to those situations didn't always work. Drugs like the statins have the potential to save thousands of lives, and COX-2 inhibitors can relieve untold suffering. The trick, as always, is in figuring out how to use them wisely...
...simulation that goes far toward resolving puzzling inconsistencies in earlier studies of the moon's formation. That event was, of course, of overwhelming importance in our planet's history, since it reduced Earth's rotational wobble and set the stage for ocean tides and ultimately life, not to mention untold moon-June poesy. Earlier simulations required a much larger object crashing into an Earth only partly formed and spinning too fast to explain Earth's current rotational rate--our 24-hour day. One study needed two separate impacts to scale back the spin rate...
...quarters and then plod down the skinny back stairs to the industrial kitchen where classic rock has become king—and not just any classic rock, but “WPBH: Puuuuuhhhkipsie.” (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for the uninitiated.) I spend the day cooking, chopping untold amounts of everything and anything, washing dishes, wiping tables and setting up the “front” or serving...
...prices, which we consider to be a more reliable measure of inflation" (than the risen CPI number released just that morning). More bond-market jawboning - those long-term rates, over which Greenspan has only psychological control, are the ones that determine mortgage rates and refinancing opportunities and thus have untold stimulatory power for consumers. (You may also recall that the great economic windfall of federal budget deficit reduction during the Clinton years was a reduction in long-term interest rates.) This also meant, "another rate cut in August...