Horse Racing's Cripple Crown?: Industry Works to Prevent Fatal Injuries [News]
Scientific American - Posted: May 16th, 2008, 7:00pm EDT
Tomorrow, the eyes of the horse racing world will turn to the 133rd annual Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of U.S. horse racing's Triple Crown.
But the dust has barely settled from the tragedy at the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, where vets were forced to euthanize the promising gray thoroughbred filly, Eight Belles, when she collapsed on the track after completing the race at Churchill Downs, suffering from two shattered ankles in her front legs.
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News Bytes of the Week: Ants Invade Texas [News]
Scientific American - Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
Tiny ants terrorize Texans [More]
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News Bytes of the Week--Tiny Ants Invade Texas [News]
Scientific American - Posted: May 16th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
Tiny ants terrorize Texans [More]
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Health care reform, one fainting spell at a time [Sciam Observations Blog]
Scientific American - Posted: May 16th, 2008, 10:11am EDT
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This Is Your Mom on Drugs: Aging Doesn't Stop Drug Use [Scientific American Magazine]
Scientific American - Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:18am EDT
It’s the kind of tongue-in-cheek concept that might have percolated out of the subversive imagination of R. Crumb, underground cartoon chronicler of the 1960s. Grandma and Grandpa are passing the time in their rockers--and passing a joint back and forth as they recall their youthful marijuana-smoking days in Haight-Ashbury. In fact, according to three investigators at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the image is no joke.
Writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Gayathri J. Dowling, Susan R. B. Weiss and Timothy P. Condon warn that many aging baby boomers, long accustomed to using illicit drugs for recreation and medicinals of all kinds for treating whatever ails them, will carry their love affair with drugs into old age. Medicine is only beginning to appreciate the consequences.
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