function makeArray(len) {   for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null;this.length = len;}qwip = new makeArray(64);qwip[0]='The finding provides the first visual evidence that when a new memory is formed new proteins are made locally at the synapse - the connection between nerve cells - increasing the strength of the synaptic connection and reinforcing the memory.';qwip[1]='As Michael tells it, attention grew slowly, but surely: "We live in a neighborhood full of active people with something to say. So people saw it as an easy way of being in touch."';qwip[2]='The state with the toughest three-strikes law in the land and a prison population of more than 150,000 is facing the real possibility of having to release tens of thousands of inmates early in order to pare its $10 billion annual correctional budget.';qwip[3]='MPs approved the bill without any empirical evidence that harsh sentencing laws reduce drug crime. They endorsed the policy without any estimate of how much it will cost to jail thousands of marijuana growers and street pushers. They changed the law without any plan to contain the spread of AIDS, hepatitis C and other drug-related diseases in the prison system. ';qwip[4]='In previous years, the UN drug czar had expressed skepticism about Portugal\'s decriminalization, which removed criminal penalties in 2001 for personal drug possession and emphasized treatment over incarceration.';qwip[5]='Declaring Michigan\'s medical marijuana act the "worst piece of legislation he has ever seen in his life," an Oakland County judge dismissed felony drug charges against a Madison Heights couple who asserted a medical defense. ';qwip[6]='Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That\'s been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs. ';qwip[7]='Many of the same reports also noted his intelligence, his genius at warfare and how, in 1886, pursued by one-third of the U.S. Army, plus 4,000 Mexican soldiers, he melted into the landscape, ghost-like, there one moment and gone the next. ';qwip[8]='Inside the hall, meanwhile, scientists, physicians, and entrepreneurs are grappling with some of the controversies that have grown along with the field. Foremost among these concerns: How good is the information delivered by these tests? How well can people understand the results? And how effectively can they help people manage their health? ';qwip[9]='For such a site to have lain hidden for so long is "completely amazing," said Wickstead, of Kingston University in London. ';qwip[10]='The ubiquitous[?] periodic table will soon have a new addition - the "super-heavy" element 112. ';qwip[11]='And a stunning female figurine from the same period found only a couple paces from the bone flute, reported last month, points to a broader artistic flowering. ';qwip[12]='Today, Igarashi has a new identity (and plenty of company among young Japanese men) as one of the soushoku danshi--literally translated, "grass-eating boys." Named for their lack of interest in sex and their preference for quieter, less competitive lives, Japan\'s "herbivores" are provoking a national debate about how the country\'s economic stagnation since the early 1990s has altered men\'s behavior. ';qwip[13]='He also proposed "prolonged detention" for terrorism suspects who cannot be tried, a problem he called "the toughest issue we face." ';qwip[14]='"Unless you\'re Warren Buffett, your family is just one serious illness away from bankruptcy," Harvard\'s Dr. David Himmelstein';qwip[15]='Yet while aeronautical engineers who willfully designed a faulty plane might be on trial for criminal negligence, Wall Street\'s math gurus are, for the most part, still employed. Strangely, the banks need quants more than ever right now. If anyone\'s going to figure out how to price these toxic assets, it\'s them.';qwip[16]='But let\'s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating.';qwip[17]='#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation ';qwip[18]='The new idea the researchers are examining is to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in today\'s rechargeable lithium batteries with a porous carbon electrode. This allows lithium ions and electrons in the cell to react instead with oxygen in the ambient air';qwip[19]='The Customs and Border Protection computer connects with your province\'s database and in less than a second &#8211; .56 to be exact &#8211; your personal information is uploaded to a screen in the booth. A second camera snaps the driver\'s face. ';qwip[20]='His custom-designed building with around 250 plants in various stages of growth has been set up as a prototype to illustrate what could be done. This is the future, Mr. Mellace says. ';qwip[21]='Next thing you know a fucking football goes across the hood of the Humvee but it\'s not a football it\'s a fucking RPG! ';qwip[22]='The National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC), which built the home, said building it used half the energy that building a traditional brick home would use. It claims energy bills for the home owners would be as low as &pound;150 a year, and predicts building on thousands of houses could begin soon. ';qwip[23]='Booming demand for honey and a rise in foods that depend on bees for pollination are fueling the increase in bee colonies. ';qwip[24]='Wright claims Jeffery was worried that Hendrix was preparing to find a new manager when their deal was due to end in December 1970.';qwip[25]='He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply, doubtless because a great many genes must have undergone evolutionary change to endow people with the faculty of language, and the new mouse was gaining only one of them. So it is perhaps surprising that possession of the human version of FOXP2 does in fact change the sounds that mice use to communicate with other mice, as well as other aspects of brain function.';qwip[26]=' "They took me away from my family and stuck me in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal," said Torres, 24, describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to a monastery in southern India.';qwip[27]='Many cities allow people to keep hens -- just not roosters -- including Seattle; Madison, Wis.; and Raleigh, N.C.  ';qwip[28]='To theoretical physicists, Maldacena had stumbled on something profound.';qwip[29]='Forty years later, we\'re still waiting for those congestion-free highways -- along with the jet pack, the paperless office and all those "Star Trek"-like gadgets that were supposed to make 21st-century life so easy. ';qwip[30]='A surreal experience followed: For decades, Davey has attempted to correct a calculation that he believes has cost taxpayers several billion dollars.';qwip[31]='"One of the simplest explanations is that it\'s a laboratory escape," Gibbs said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. "But there are lots of others." ';qwip[32]='The video spread across the Internet after family members handed it out during Rosenberg\'s funeral on Monday. In the 18-minute tape, a seemingly calm Rosenberg, sitting behind a desk and microphone, alleges that Colom, the First Lady and two associates were involved in murder, corruption and money laundering. ';qwip[33]='Much like Bush\'s attitude toward the Constitution, apparently the Clean Water Act is just a goddamned piece of paper.';qwip[34]='"The kinds of motivations that have driven people to think about developing ethanol as a vehicle fuel have been somewhat different from those that have been motivating people to think about battery electric vehicles, but the overlap is in the area of maximizing efficiency and minimizing adverse impacts on climate." ';qwip[35]='So many ships have congregated here -- 735, according to AIS Live ship tracking service of Lloyd\'s Register-Fairplay in Redhill, Britain -- that shipping lines are becoming concerned about near misses and collisions in one of the world\'s most congested waterways, the straits that separate Malaysia and Singapore from Indonesia. ';qwip[36]='"What the technology yields and records with breathtaking quality and quantity is a highly detailed profile, not simply of where we go, but by easy inference, of our associations -- political, religious, amicable and amorous, to name only a few -- and of the pattern of our professional and avocational pursuits." ';qwip[37]='The Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals from two hold-out counties in Southern California that objected to the state\'s 13-year-old medical marijuana law and claimed it should be struck down as violating the federal drug control act.  Without comment, the court turned down the pair of appeals. ';qwip[38]='"Regardless of how you try to explain to people it\'s a \'war on drugs\' or a \'war on a product,\' people see a war as a war on them," he said. "We\'re not at war with people in this country." ';qwip[39]='What if Americans could buy cigarettes but were banned from growing tobacco? Buy bread but not allowed to grow wheat? ';qwip[40]='In fact, pharma-sponsored trials rarely produce results that are unfavorable to the companies\' products';qwip[41]='Witt envisions trains like the Shinkansen, the bullet trains in Japan, or France\'s TGV trains that regularly travel at near 190 mph. ';qwip[42]='Now Che Chan and pals from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology say that metamaterials could be used for an even more exotic effect: for cloaks that create the illusion that a different object is present.  ';qwip[43]='There were other uplifting, astonishing moments Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, at a five-hour concert which Seeger only OK\'d because it raised much-needed funds for his Clearwater project--a non profit organization which the oft-maligned bard started in 1969 to clean up his beloved, polluted Hudson River. ';qwip[44]='But two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists\' letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth. ';qwip[45]='"Corbett states an unequivocal belief that Creationism is \'superstitious nonsense,\'" U.S. District Court Judge James Selna said in a 37-page ruling released from his Santa Ana courtroom. "The court cannot discern a legitimate secular purpose in this statement, even when considered in context."';qwip[46]='The new findings map out a series of simple, efficient chemical reactions that could have formed molecules of RNA, a close cousin of DNA, from the basic materials available more than 3.85 billion years ago';qwip[47]='"The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada" is groundbreaking: Never before has a state\'s fall from grace been so precisely graphed and plotted. ';qwip[48]='The 70-megawatt plants, each of which would consist of two reactors on board giant steel platforms, would provide power to Gazprom, the oil firm which is also Russia\'s biggest company.';qwip[49]='Since the initial H5N1 deaths in Hong Kong in 1997, the WHO, with the support of most national health services, has promoted a strategy focused on the identification and isolation of a pandemic strain within its local radius of outbreak, followed by a thorough dousing of the population with antivirals and (if available) vaccine.';qwip[50]='What\'s sad is that I\'m sure many a primary care physician was given literature from Merck that said, "As published in Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, Fosamax outperforms all other medications...." Said doctor, or even the average researcher wouldn\'t know that the journal is bogus. ';qwip[51]='"At the very least, a department investigation should have been conducted into whether or not police were fabricating evidence simply to obtain convictions," defense attorney Jerry S. Goldman said. ';qwip[52]='Utilities have a virtually unlimited budget to argue their positions -- a budget they raise from their ratepayers.';qwip[53]='"It is clear from consideration of the Report of the Commission on Electronic Voting that significant additional costs would arise to advance electronic voting in Ireland. This decision has been taken to avoid such costs';qwip[54]='"The ultimate goal is to feed information from sensors into an active control system that precisely adjusts components to optimize efficiency," said Purdue doctoral student Jonathan White';qwip[55]='Levels of the gas at the Zeppelin research station on Svalbard, northern Norway, last week peaked at over 397 parts per million (ppm), an increase of more than 2.5ppm on 2008. They have since begun to reduce and today stand at 393.7ppm. Prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 levels were around 280ppm. ';qwip[56]='Mexico\'s Congress passed a similar proposal in 2006 but the bill was vetoed by Calderon\'s predecessor Vicente Fox, under pressure from the United States, which said it would increase drug abuse, but now is worried by the drug-related violence along its border. ';qwip[57]='The ruling Thursday by District Judge Joel Novak does not legalize medical marijuana in Iowa. Instead, it requires the pharmacy board to consider whether marijuana is properly classified as a Schedule I controlled substance under state law. ';qwip[58]='The natural mechanical properties of flax and hemp bring high performance and competitive cost to new composite materials now being used in the Automotive, Furniture, Boat Building and Leisure Industries, the organization says. ';qwip[59]='In "Philosophia Botanica" (1751), the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus proposed that it should be possible to plant a floral clock. He noted that two species of daisy, the hawk\'s-beard and the hawkbit, opened and closed at their respective times within about a half-hour each day. ';qwip[60]='"We\'re experiencing right now in Koranic studies a rise of interest analogous to the rise of critical Bible studies in the 19th century,";';qwip[61]='For now, the government talks of closely controlling the lithium and keeping foreigners at bay. Adding to the pressure, indigenous groups in the remote salt desert where the mineral lies are pushing for a share in the eventual bounty. ';qwip[62]='Selling broadband connections to the web is the most profitable business for cable companies. They also have better--and cheaper--technology than the phone companies and mobile carriers for doing so.';qwip[63]='The smallest ever incandescent lamp, made using a single carbon nanotube, has been created by physicists in the US. At 1.4 micrometres long and just 13 nanometres wide, the filament is invisible to the naked eye until it is switched on. ';
