One in Five Scientists Use Brain Enhancing Drugs

American Voices

April 15, 2008 | ISSUE 44•16

One in five respondents to a poll conducted by the journal Nature said they had used drugs to boost their brain power. What do you think?

The real danger here is the use of these drugs by aspiring scientists trying desperately to emulate their heroes and to secure their own fame and fortune."

Ralph Liples
Electrician
I can't wait to see that smug fuck Albert Fert stripped of his Nobel.

Cara McKay
Pharmacist
When will scientists learn that real progress comes from the heart, not from some test tube full of chemicals.

Perry Kelly
Cabinet Maker

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

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The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
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Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
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05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
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05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.