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The development of the lightbulb sparked the spread of electric power in the U.S. Edison was behind the creation of the first commercial power plant in 1882; New York City had electricity 10 years later. By the late 1930s, the Rural Electrification Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lightbulb | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Should Professors Cheech and Chong ever receive university tenure teaching the medical history of their favorite subject, the course pack would be surprisingly thick. As early as 2737 B.C., the mystical Emperor Shen Neng of China was prescribing marijuana tea for the treatment of gout, rheumatism, malaria and, oddly enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

It wasn't until 1914 that drug use was defined as a crime, under the Harrison Act. To get around states' rights issues, the act used a tax to regulate opium- and coca-derived drugs: it levied a tax on nonmedical uses of the drugs that was much higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medical Marijuana | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

The original version of this article stated that the two older vaccines used in the new experimental AIDS vaccine were proven ineffective in previous trials. In fact, only one was proven ineffective, while clinical testing of the other vaccine was abandoned before reaching Phase III trials for efficacy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIDS Vaccine: Modest Results, but a Sign of Hope | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

But while seeming to douse one flame, the opening of an officially recognized channel for reverting to Roman Catholicism could spark other conflagrations within Anglicanism, both from conservatives and progressives who are suspicious that Rome is poaching their faithful. Indeed, Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's outgoing chief of ecumenical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope to Unhappy Anglicans: Come On In! | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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