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...getting marijuana off Coloradans' minds might be tougher. The state has a waiting list 20,000 names long for the medical-marijuana cards that users must show at dispensaries. It's difficult to turn on local radio or TV without hearing about pot. Realtors assess how dispensaries affect local property values. Veterans debate pot's usefulness in treating posttraumatic stress disorder. In November, Westword, Denver's alternative weekly newspaper, hired a pot critic. (Watch a video about medical-marijuana home delivery...
...final composition of the government will nominally affect the future direction of the Iraqi state - whether it becomes more centralized in the hands of the Baghdad government, or whether power is devolved to the regions, especially the Shi'ite-dominated south and the Kurdish north. But either direction could destabilize the country. Devolution could spark a civil war between Arabs and Kurds, while further centralization in a country with a history of totalitarianism could put Iraq on a slippery slope to a new kind of dictatorship...
...debt-provoked currency plunge won't be a miracle cure for the economic ills of all euro-zone exporters. Lafaure, for example, notes that while his euro costs in research and development greatly affect sales price, his company is partly protected by having production sites in dollar-zone countries in Asia - providing a pricing hedge when the euro is too high. Multinationals with affiliates in the dollar zone have benefited from the weaker dollar over the past few years. German electronics giant Siemens, for example, generated nearly 45% of its revenue in 2009 in the dollar region. "The bigger...
...think the use of CGI and 3-D will affect cinema? -Josh Coppenbarger, Normal, Ill. Obviously there's a milestone with Avatar in terms of the emotionality of CG characters that will have acceptance from here on. I think we're at an interesting stage where if we can imagine it, we can create it. At this point, it's down to storytelling and imagination...
...active group of parents won a two-week effort on Tuesday protesting a 2010-2011 school year budget cut proposal that would affect a bilingual immersion program for Portuguese-English speakers at the King Open School in Cambridge...