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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, [...]

Behind the spectacle of the Beijing Olympics and the record setting performances of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, and many others, a brewing controversy over the exploitation of young athletes was muffled in the interests of athletic excellence, national pride and international harmony. Not that these aren’t worthy goals, even arguably outweighing the consequences of continued [...]

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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 [...]