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With the wisdom of hindsight, Deepak Chopra recalls a conversation he had with Michael Jackson a few years ago. "He said there's something you can take that takes you to the valley of death and then takes you back," the best-selling author and physician tells TIME. "I hadn't the vaguest idea of what he was talking about. And then he quickly changed the subject." Now, says Chopra, "I see he was talking about propofol...
...make quick adjustments to avoid problems. Abusers have no such recourse for a drug that acts so quickly that they often injure themselves immediately by falling. Earley says that a center that specializes in drug abuse among medical professionals started to see early signs of propofol abuse five years ago. "Now it's part of the screening for all physicians who come here. Do you use intravenous propofol?" says Earley. "I wouldn't have believed this if you had asked me that five years ago...
...mainstream media coverage, the FDA was "hearing from health-care professionals about abuse by other professionals, long before Michael Jackson," says FDA spokeswoman Karen Riley. "[The Jackson news] just means I am answering a lot of propofol questions." DEA spokesman Rusty Payne says his agency was petitioned two years ago to "schedule" propofol - which would make it a controlled substance. While the research process is under way, Payne would not give a timetable on the process...
...global rush into green technology could be setting the stage for a most unusual comeback: the foul-smelling Trabant, the oft-ridiculed symbol of communist East Germany, all but disappeared from German roadways after the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago. But now its makers are planning to introduce a climate-saving electric version of the Trabi, as it was affectionately known...
Herpa makes the German equivalent of Matchbox cars, scale models of real cars that can fit snugly in the hands of small children. It bought the rights to the Trabi name years ago and makes a line of Trabis for tiny tots. Now, Herpa wants to market a new Trabi as a retro designer item for a green, fashion-conscious clientele. It plans to unveil a prototype next month at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...