Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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PRODUCT An automatic vacuum coffee pot, due out this week, that Starbucks is marketing as the "pre-eminent coffee experience...
Jaffar, 29, a Hamas field leader, spoke to TIME correspondent Jamil Hamad about what it was like to participate in the street fights in Hebron last week...
...Nobel Prize committee reminded the world last week, that view radically changed in the late 1950s when Swedish pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson brought dopamine out of the shadows. First Carlsson established that the areas of the brain known as the basal ganglia contained very high levels of dopamine. Then he administered a drug that lowered those concentrations in laboratory mice. Soon the mice began to stagger and reel, losing control of their voluntary movements...
...Last week Carlsson, 77, a professor emeritus at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, finally won a Nobel. Sharing the prize for Physiology or Medicine with him were Columbia University's Eric Kandel, 70, who laid bare the molecular foundations of learning and memory, and Rockefeller University's Paul Greengard, 74, who elucidated the chemical cascade touched off by dopamine and other neurotransmitters. In each case, the Nobel was surely long overdue and richly deserved...
...Number of school killings last year, according to a Secret Service review released last week...