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...Those countries have already gotten the message loud and clear, and have indicated they'll push OPEC to agree to increase production when the cartel meets on March 28. Still, the increase they're currently proposing amounts to 1 million barrels a day, whereas the production cut in effect since last March amounted to 4 million barrels a day - and the recovery in the world economy since then has actually seen an increase in demand. "The production increase they're currently offering may slow down the price rises, but it isn't going to bring the price down," says Baumohl...
...school committee plans to vote next Tuesday on the merger, which would take effect this fall...
...George Ricaurte has concluded in several animal studies and one human study that MDMA can damage a particular group of the brain's nerve cells. But he wants more research. Last week Ricaurte said his work has never shown that the damage to the affected cells has any visible effect on "the vast majority of people who have experimented with MDMA." The debate has now found its way onto the Web, where the old therapist crowd behind MDMA has become active. The sites are populated mostly by young users, however, kids who blindly praise the drug ("Sammy the Bull rules...
...busts have had little effect. Nationwide, customs officers have already seized more ecstasy this fiscal year (nearly 3.3 million hits) than in all of last year; in 1997, they seized just 400,000 hits. In a 1998 survey, 8% of high school seniors said they had tried e, up from 5.8% the year before. In New York City, according to another survey, 1 in 4 adolescents has tried ecstasy. So much e is coming into the U.S. that the Customs Service has created a special ecstasy command center and is training 13 more dogs to sniff out the drug...
...sold 4 million copies worldwide to date and been published in 30 countries. A very funny account of the minor woes and epiphanies of a 30-ish single woman living in London, it spawned a host of pale imitations and a humorless debate about Bridget's supposedly debilitating effect on the progress of women. (My two cents: Fielding is a wonderful comic novelist who obviously struck some vein of truth. To condemn Bridget for being a more pathetic version of the rest of us is to miss the point...