Word: weeding
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...12th grade, about half of young Americans have tried marijuana, which put me in the geeky other half. I used to think this was a good thing, since I never developed a taste for pot and avoided becoming dependent. But as the medical-marijuana movement flowered and weed's p.r. improved, I often wondered if I shouldn't have relished it as a kid, before I had a personal trainer to tsk-tsk my every vice. Shrinking testicles? Mushy brains? I came to see these as grotesqueries invented by antidrug propagandists...
...benefit? So if marijuana can be harmful to healthy people--but usually isn't--could it actually be good for the sick? This is where the science gets scraggier--and in the absence of data, politics takes over. What we know is that healers have accumulated copious anecdotes on weed's powers over the past 4,700 years. Understanding Marijuana author Earleywine credits a (possibly mythical) Chinese emperor with introducing the plant as a treatment for gout around 2700 B.C. But the emperor also thought his pot potion would help memory, making him the first of many fans to aggrandize...
...younger sister of notorious pot fiend Tracy B. VanderWal ’05, visited last weekend. VanderWal, who doesn’t want to be responsible for his sister’s introduction to pot, instructed his blockmates on Friday afternoon not to smoke or tell any weed-related stories for the entire weekend. His plan backfired when the complete lack of conversation topics caused by the marijuana ban convinced his sister to attend Brown next year...
...franchisees fuming about nearby newcomers cannibalizing their sales--has eased. Only about 300 new stores are expected to open in the U.S. this year, compared with 1,100 in 1995. But there are critics who say that even that is too many and that McDonald's needs to weed out the worst franchisees and shut down some of the underperforming restaurants. "They've stretched the store managers. There are 1,000 of them that are marginal at best," says Howard Penney, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, who thinks McDonald's should close 500 to 1,000 branches. "They have...
...strange” is a great description; “annoying as heck,” even better. Giving up academic courses at Harvard for mind-numbing red tape is right up there with giving up a varsity sport to do laundry. But weed-out we must here at Harvard land. If you’re not motivated by massive piles of paperwork, then maybe you don’t deserve that fellowship as much as the winner...