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There's a new obsession sweeping the country, reaching into homes and dorm rooms across the country via modems everywhere. According to Searchterms.com, a Web site that tracks the most common Internet search words, it is second in popularity only to pornography. As addictive as heroin and just as illegal, it can cost you hours upon hours of valuable study time...
...portion of Kirkland Street between Sumner Road and Francis Avenue is now closed. Its traffic has been routed via Irving Street...
...University of Wisconsin have claimed that their compulsory student activities fees--which finance a wide range of groups, including student political groups of all stripes--violate their free speech rights. Two lower courts ruled in the dissenters' favor, agreeing that they could not be forced to endorse, via their fees, views they didn't agree with...
That's what makes a report in the current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...
...real, but they're outweighed by the drug's lifesaving potential. But even if the FDA goes along with the decision--which it need not but generally does--the very fact that the meeting took place raised questions about the agency's approval process. Rezulin got its thumbs-up via the so-called fast-track system, which slashes through some of the FDA's red tape in order to get an important medication into patients' hands quickly. Drug companies love it, since it gets profits rolling in sooner...