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First, some background. Researchers have known since the 1960s that not all headaches are the same, medically speaking. Tension headaches, which are the easiest to treat, are triggered by clenched muscles in the head and neck. Migraines, which generate a throbbing pain that is sometimes preceded by an "aura" and can last 12 to 24 hours, are produced by blood vessels that alternately constrict and expand. Cluster headaches are even worse than migraines--if you can imagine such a thing--and scientists suspect that overactive blood vessels play a role in them too. One of the hallmarks of cluster headaches...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court's devolution of power from the federal government to the states continued today when justices struck down the portion of the Brady Law requiring local police to perform background checks. Writing for the majority in the 5-4 vote, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the federal government cannot command state officials to enforce federal regulatory programs: "Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty." While the ruling sets an important precedent in the Court's continued shifting of power to the states, it's likely to have little impact...
...mental disturbance, an inability to appreciate the wrongfulness of one's actions, relatively minor participation in the crime and so on. The defense will not attempt to show that any of these apply to McVeigh, but there is a catch-all provision that allows it to bring in the background, record and character of the defendant. Accordingly, Jones will call witnesses from McVeigh's past with the hope of humanizing him and showing that up until April 19, 1995, he was a decent young man and fine soldier. Richard Burr, a soft-spoken death-penalty expert who is conducting...
...physician, known for his advocacy of doctor-assisted suicide, has just released a compact disc of original jazz tunes entitled "A Very Still Life." Listing for $18.95, the aptly titled CD contains 12 tracks in which Dr. Death can be heard jamming on the flute and organ with the background assistance of the Morpheus Quintet. "The thing I hope the world will say about me years from now is that I was a physician who helped relieve human suffering," Kevorkian writes in the CD's liner notes. "Music has often soothed me and I hope these works will make...
...group of 2,750 entrepreneurs (who run 84% of the stores), a couple of hundred figure to be unhappy at any given time. A tougher environment always increases the background noise. But there is also some real shouting going on by a number of dissidents in a group called the consortium, organized by Dick Adams, a former Mac franchisee and executive...