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News in Brief by Sanjay Salgado ‘10

The Feel Good Treatment for Addiction:
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that in rats, increasing the level of D2 receptors in the brain can reduce cocaine use by 75%. The D2 receptors are activated by dopamine, a neurotransmitter that, among other things, […]

The sticker affixed to the front of Float (Side One Dummy, 2008) brags that The Alternative Press considers it “one of the most important records of the year, if not the decade.” That’s somewhat of a stretch, but there’s no doubt that Flogging Molly’s latest release is its most mature and significant. What little the […]

Agnetha Åse Fältskog (born 5 April 1950 in Jönköping) is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and producer, most notable for being a member of the popular Swedish pop group ABBA.

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Vol. 1, Iss. 1Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth What happens when America’s most phallocentric novelist destroys his protagonist’s penis? He writes a bad book. It is almost incredible that the very man who penned Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint and American Pastoral, among other gems, could produce the tired, stale prose in Exit Ghost. Ironically, Philip Roth […]