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There are more medical-marijuana dispensaries in L.A. than Starbucks. Most are like nice tea shops, where salespeople behind a counter open glass jars so you can smell the Sugar Kush, look at the Purple Urkel under a magnifying lens and ask about the effects of Hindu Skunk. At the Farmacy, I spun a wheel to determine my first-time-buyer gift and was handed a pot lollipop. If the pot-dispensary people ran General Motors, the recession would be over. Although GM cars would be engineered to just stare idly at the road for hours. Which is more than...
Maybe not. Since then, however, the bluster coming from Tehran has faded - and a consensus imposed from above may be forming. Instead of a rejection, Iran seems to be formulating a counter-proposal, one that conservative newspaper Keyhan described as a "gradual and simultaneous" exchange of enriched uranium with the West. Uranium would be sent abroad in two stages, not all at once, and any nuclear material shipped outside of Iran must be simultaneously exchanged for the enriched nuclear fuel Iran needs for domestic use. The worry in Tehran is that, if the original IAEA proposal were agreed...
...action is the latest in a geopolitical tug-of-war between President Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How the Administration's newest signal is received may depend on the listener. The actions could hearten some Iranian dissidents, who urged President Obama to take sides during surprise counter-demonstrations to their governments celebration of the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy seizure. It could also be welcomed by some Sunni Muslim nations at odds with the Shi'ite regime in Iran...
Sullenberger was lauded by speakers including the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, and Undergraduate Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10, who all recognized the captain for his calm heroism under the most intense of circumstances...
Among the few belongings that Major Nidal Malik Hasan didn't give away, and left behind in his Casa del Norte apartment near Fort Hood, was his stash of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Stuffed into a shoe box and left in the laundry room, the collection included vitamins and an old bottle of an anti-HIV drug called Combivir...