Jan 31, 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 CONTACT: Dorie Hightower or Sara Rosario Wilson, 301-443-6245, e-mail: media@nida.nih.gov, Contacto en Español, 301-594-6145 News Advisory PAIN, OPIOIDS, AND ADDICTION: AN URGENT [...]
Jan 30, 2007
By: Radley Balko
Foxnews.com
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice asked seven U.S. attorneys across the country to step down from their positions. Critics of the Bush administration, including California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have since questioned the move, noting that it seems to have been politically motivated.
One fired U.S. attorney, for example, led [...]
Jan 27, 2007
Author Unknown
TheAge.com
It is the “social glue” that helps bind mother to child, stranger to fellow concert-goer. Tom Horan explains why music makes us happy.
A class at a junior high school are giving their term assembly in front of their parents. At the end of their potted version of Romeo and Juliet, the music [...]
Jan 25, 2007
By: Carissa Pedigo
The University Daily Kansan
It’s 1:30 p.m. and Sarah has slept through her 9 a.m. class for the second time this week. Maybe her cell phone died, and the alarm she set on it never went off. She snatches the phone from under her pillow and flips it open. It’s on. She [...]
Jan 24, 2007
By: Bob Egelko
The San Francisco Chronicle
One of the Bush administration’s most far-reaching assertions of government power was revealed quietly last week when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that habeas corpus — the right to go to federal court and challenge one’s imprisonment — is not protected by the Constitution.
“The Constitution doesn’t say every [...]
Jan 21, 2007
By: Ron Kroichick
The San Francisco Chronicle
On the most famous play in 49ers history, amid the din at raucous Candlestick Park, Joe Montana raced to his right and hurriedly scanned the field. He backpedaled to elude three onrushing Dallas players, twice pumped his arm to throw and floated an off-balance pass into the back [...]
