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...mutual friend of hers and Doblin's. She believes e helped Shane find the right attitude to fight his illness, and she helps Doblin advocate for limited legal use. Soon his association will help fund the first approved study of MDMA in psychotherapy, involving 30 victims of rape in Spain diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. In this country, the FDA has approved only one study. In 1995 Dr. Charles Grob, a UCLA psychiatrist, used it as a pain reliever for end-stage cancer patients. In the first phase of the study, he concluded the drug is safe if used...
...fish-based diet, the Japanese top the list, living an average of 74 years of healthy life (concerned that the chronically bedridden were skewing the curve, the WHO switched from the straight life-expectancy indicator this year). Coming up fast are the Australians, at 73.2, followed by France, Sweden, Spain and Italy. The U.S. notched an even 70. At the bottom? Sierra Leone, at 26 healthy years per person. In fact, the bottom 23 places on the 191-nation list were all countries from sub-Saharan Africa, ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, malaria and other tropical diseases, poor nutrition...
...single woman, SHIRLEY MACLAINE would make an enviable date for any man. But potential suitors whose resumes have not included a stint as the leader of a European realm may find themselves out of luck. In her latest book, The Camino, MacLaine reveals that during a spiritual trek in Spain, she learned that in a former life she and the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had been lovers. She describes the King of the Franks, who died in 814, as a "lusty" man who "loved to swim." As luck would have it, she says she met up with him again...
...came to America before Columbus, but they did not enslave the Indians or unleash such diseases as smallpox on the Native Americans or sell their lands. No matter how brutal the Vikings were, they did not come close to matching the exploits of those who came from England and Spain 500 years later. The Europeans took land away from the natives, while the Vikings' purpose was to trade with them. JASON MIRDANIALI Tampa...
...that Chile's Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 12-10 to lift the former president's immunity from prosecution, opening the way to a slew of prosecutions for kidnapping, torture, murder and other human rights violations during the general's 17-year dictatorship. Pinochet eluded a court date in Spain earlier this year when the British government ruled he was too ill to stand trial, and sent him home, where the general had presumed the immunity he'd authored as a condition for restoring democracy would protect him from further pursuit...