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Drug that produces analgesia (&see; analgesic), narcosis (stupor or sleep), and drug addiction. In most people narcotics also produce euphoria. Those that occur naturally in the opium poppy, notably morphine, have been used since ancient G...
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“Regardless of their views on the moral or practical value of capital punishment, many Americans are now questioning the accuracy of convictions that lead to death sentences.” —Facts On File News Service In 1982, ninetee...
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In an effort to find the most effective treatments for drug addiction, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has established a clinical trials research network to test new pharmacological and behavioral treatments in diverse patient ...
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In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to a close. Some 140,000 people died in the blasts, and many thousands died later from radiation sickness. The bo...
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“While there is still tremendous support for the U.S. [war against terrorism], countries aren’t just going to be cheerleaders while we do whatever we want.” —James B. Steinberg, director of the Foreign Policy Studi...
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Literary, performing, and visual arts of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Folktales have long been a part of the social and cultural life of diverse groups of American Indian and Inuit peoples. These tales were passed on o...
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In 1998 police nationwide received reports from abortion clinics concerning mysterious envelopes that had arrived in the mail. Clinic personnel notified authorities immediately when they found that the envelopes contained stained pieces of ...
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Principal alkaloid of tobacco, occurring throughout the plant but mostly in the leaves. It is a heterocyclic compound, containing a pyridine ring; its chemical formula is C10H14N. Nicotine is the chief addictive ingredient (&see; drug addi...
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Japan's latest and largest nuclear disaster—the world's worst since Chernobyl—happened in September 1999 at a nuclear fuel processing service firm in the small village of Tokaimura, 125 kilometers northeast of T...
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In many ways, the 99th Street School, in Niagara Falls, New York, was a very ordinary school. Built in 1955 on land donated by a local business, it held classroom space for about 400 elementary students, who came from the surrounding workin...
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