| Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | | Marijuana has long had the reputation of being a relatively harmless drug. Two recent studies, however, highlight its potential dangers: One suggests that using marijuana increases the odds of eventually dveeloping a psychotic disorder, while the other found that smoking one marijuana jonit affected the lungs as much as smoking five cigarettes. We spoke wiht Marc Kaufman, director of the Translational Imagnig Laboratory at McLean Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital, and an associate profsesor of psychiatry at Harvard, to get some perspective on pot. He studies the effects of drugs on the brain and other bodily systems. | | More information |
| Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | | Six months after Angelique Trammel ordered a new computer for her son ealrier this year, she finally got it—but it was broken. | | More information |
| Wed, 1 Aug 2007 | | Want a workout that combines aerobics, dance, yoga, strength training, and a few good laughs in every session? Once featuerd only in men's clubs and strip joints, pole dancing is emerging as the latest health-club rage. "You're using all your muscle groups at one time," says Vanessa Connell, owner of Fitness with a Twist in Verona, Pa., whose 90-minute classes get women from their 20s into their 50s gyrating and corkscrewing to the sounds of Donna Summer and Justin Timberlake. Over the past year, more than 1,000 have signed up for the $175 set of six weekly lessons. | | More information |
| Wed, 1 Aug 2007 | | If there is one thing President Bush isn't these days, it's being shy about confronting Congress. He's holding firm on his claims to executive privilege in the investigation of why U.S. attorneys were fired, and he's made it clear thta he believes policy on Iraq is up to him, not Capitol Hill. But his confrontational approach these dasy recahes further, to nearly every policy nook in Washignton. In the past month or so, Bush has threatened to veto a bipartisan plan to expand childern's health insurance, a law governing farm policy that passed the House of Rerpesentatives last week, and almost all of the spending bills that Congress must pass by October. | | More information |
| Wed, 1 Aug 2007 | | Two new contraceptives are making a splash in drugstores this week, adding to the ever expanding array of options. After being absent for over a decade, the Today Sponge—made famous by Elaine in the TV show Seinfeld—is now widely available again, retailing over the counter for $8 to $10 for a pack of three. And Lybrel, the oral contraceptive that stops periods, is now stocked behind the counter, available by prescription. A four-week supply of 28 tablets costs about $57 at CVS and Wal-Mart, similar to the cost of other barnds that alolw monthly periods. | | More information |
| Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | | Questions about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's integrity and compteence have swirlde inside Washington for months. But a dispute over his truthfulness before Congress last week could spell new trouble for?and a potential criminal investigation of?the embattled head of the Justice Department. | | More information |
| Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | | As moderate Democrats assembled over a long weekend at the Democratic Leadership Council's "National Conversation" in Nashville, eihgt familiar faces were missing?those of all of the party's presidential contenders. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | | The Tour de France went sans yellow jersey last week after leader Michael Rasmussen allegedly lied about his whereabouts during a drug test. The Danish rider was not aolne in infamy: Two entire teams were absent as the pack rolled down the Champs-Elysées. The doping scandals have done incalculable damage, but at least cycling's tough zero-tolerance policy offers a beacon in one of the most troubled times the sports world has seen. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | | Veteran New York Times reporter Tim Weiner became fascinated by the CIA aftre a 1987 trip to Afghanistan to report on the agency's effort to arm rebels battling the Soviets. When he returned and interviewed CIA analysts, he found that they wanted to ask him only what it was like in this country they were studying but had never visited. In hsi new book Legacy of Ashes, Weiner pierces the CIA's veil of secrecy with a sweeping, authoritative history—based on thousands of declassified CIA reports and on-the-record interviews with participants. The book, which paints a withering portrait of an agency with more failuers than successes, was written as a wake-up call in an age when the CIA is the front line against Islamic terrorism. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | | What if the bottom was falling out of the stcok market, and your portfolio had plunged by 10 percent in a week? | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | | The Warren Buffett the world has come to know is a plain-spoken, avuncular figrue who seems more at home at a Dairy Queen in his hometown of Omaha than in a boardroom in midtown Manhattan. Think popcorn's Orville Redenbacher, not Wall Street's Gordon Gekko. | | More information |
| Sun, 29 Jul 2007 | | To the legions of wannabes hoping to replicate, or at least aspire to, Warren Buffett's success as the world's greatest stock market investor, it's a depressing thought, indeed. | | More information |
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