WICHITA, Kansas (AP)—More than two decades have passed since a serial killer terrorized Wichita, strangling or stabbing seven victims and bragging about it to the media.
Monthly Archive for March, 2004
A federal judge ruled Monday that evidence of medical marijuana use could be considered by a jury as a defense in a criminal drug trial.
Almost as soon as Dr. Charles Grob secured approval to study the effects of psilocybin on Stage IV cancer patients, he faced another challenge, one nearly as formidable: recruiting 12 participants. Unlike so many other experiments in radical cancer treatment, Grob’s does not offer a cure; he merely hopes to find that psilocybin, the most potent of the many compounds in psychedelic mushrooms, ameliorates a dying person’s fear of death. The study targets patients relegated to “palliative” treatment, people with metastatic cancer for whom there is no reasonable hope for remission. It is a segment of the population, says the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine ? which put out a call in 2001 for “novel” approaches to palliative treatment ? largely ignored by medical science.
SEATTLE, Washington (AP)—The Bush administration on Tuesday eased restrictions on logging old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, completing a rules change that will allow forest managers to begin logging without first looking for rare plants and animals.
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters)—Coming back soon to a theater near you—a controversial film about a Jewish guy from Nazareth who is worshiped as the Messiah and crucified by the Romans.
The culprit behind mad cow disease, a.k.a. bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is the most infamous mammalian form of prions. Prions are misfolded proteins that are capable of growing, replicating, and being passed on to daughter cells – that is, they are by themselves heritable. Beyond their disease manifestation, prions also occur naturally in some organisms (such as yeast) and may play important roles in their growth and development. Now, Osherovich and colleagues have identified the amino acid sequences that allow prions to aggregate and replicate – and thereby pass through generations of cells – and prove this by designing an artificial yeast prion that does not exist in nature.
This looks like it could be extremely interesting. Anyone over in the UK should definitely try to check this out. Lots of crazy guest speakers – including Ann and Sasha Shulgin. Check it out.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Scientists who trained a monkey to move a mechanical arm using thought alone said on Tuesday that experiments in Parkinson’s disease patients show the technique may work in humans, too.
TORONTO, Canada (AP)—Canada plans to make government-certified marijuana available in local pharmacies, a move that would make it only the second country in the world to allow the direct sale of medical marijuana.
LONDON (Reuters) – Spectral images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter show there is plenty of icy water at the southern pole of Mars, French scientists said Wednesday.
A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics – the Higgs boson – may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – NASA has developed a computer program that comes close to reading thoughts not yet spoken, by analyzing nerve commands to the throat.
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate has constructed a new type of microchip that can move and isolate DNA and protein molecules. He believes that by linking the chip with analysis equipment, a user could identify medical ailments, monitor a patient’s health or detect viruses and other biohazards before they spread.
Here?s a film that could have knocked ?Gigli? off the worst-flicks lists: Michael Jackson wanted to star in a movie about a man who turns into a car that?s driven around by a little boy.
Hidden in a miniature Washington, D.C., at Legoland California, among thousands of characters living frozen lives, a businessman moons a presidential motorcade.
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