Ask AP: Building windmills, seized drugs prices Houston Chronicle | - Windmills don't just sprout from the earth wherever there's a stiff breeze. Curiosity about where windmills in the U.S. are manufactured - and how the massive contraptions get to the sites where they're installed - inspired one of three questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column ...
Cocaine Addiction Stems from Desire, Not the Drug Scientific American | Scientists know that addictive drugs can mess with the brain’s circuitry and hijack its reward systems, but a July 31 rat study in the journal Neuron shows that psychological factors may be more instrumental in causing these changes than a drug’s chemical effects are. Cocaine use trigg...
Cocaine Addiction Stems from Desire, Not the Drug Scientific American | Scientists know that addictive drugs can mess with the brain’s circuitry and hijack its reward systems, but a July 31 rat study in the journal Neuron shows that psychological factors may be more instrumental in causing these changes than a dr...
Cocaine smuggler jailed for ten years Gulf News | Dubai A court has confirmed a 10 year jail sentence for a South African visitor who handed over a bag containing cocaine to a policeman at Dubai airport. | The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the initial verdict, ten years in jail and a Dh50,000 fine,...
India in line to become drug hub The Australian | LAW enforcement authorities have warned that India is becoming one of the world's largest transit points in the global drug market and a primary source of illegal chemicals used in the manufacture of narcotics such as ice. | Australian Crime Commis...
Doctors warn of new 'powdered Ecstasy' risk as police urge against downgrade The Daily Mail | Drug users are suffering serious health problems after accidentally taking powerful powdered ecstasy instead of cocaine, a medical expert warned today. | Dr Paul Dargan, of Guy's and St Thomas's poisons unit, said his hospitals were receiving many ...
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Three sentenced over cocaine bust Sydney Morning Herald | IT WAS a complex ploy but police discovered it by accident. | They were investigating another man, when a recorded phone call led to a plan by three eastern suburbs men to conspi...
After drug and gun arrests, man with cocaine gets decade in prison Seattle Post-Intelligence | A Seattle man with prior convictions involving guns, drugs and violence will spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court to possessing crack cocaine wit...
EU calls for update to bolster bloc's drug fight San Diego BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU's justice chief called on EU governments on Thursday to update their joint fight against drugs, warning more needs to be done to curb the supply and demand of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin as new drug trafficking ro...
Woman In Flight-Rage Case Caught With Cocaine The Examiner TheDenverChannel.com - 2 hrs 10 mins ago A woman charged with punching a flight attendant on a JetBlue flight has violated her probation by being found with cocaine, said the U.S. Attorney's Office. | Related Topics: U.S. Attorney's Office , JetBlue ...
Canucks head into season with franchise best win record of 6-1 Canada Dot Com | Nobody is laughing now. When Pavol Demitra boldly suggested that linemate Mason Raymond had the potential to evolve into a Marian Gaborik clone, it raised some eyebrows and got the odd chuckle. | Not any longer. With striking speed and smarts, a confident Raymond scored a highlight-reel goal and streaked into position to accept a Demitra cross-ic...
Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point The Examiner Scientific American Environmental - 14 mins ago The basic proposition behind the science of climate change is so firmly rooted in the laws of physics that no reasonable person can dispute it. All other things being equal, adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere--by, for example, burning millions of tons of oil, coal and natural gas--will make...
