Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 12:19:03 PM CEST
One big drug test: Analyzing a city's sewage can put a number on its vices
Which city uses more cocaine: Los Angeles or London? Is heroin a big problem in San Diego? And has Ecstasy emerged in rural America?
Environmental scientists are beginning to use an unsavory new tool -- raw sewage -- to paint an accurate portrait of drug abuse in communities. Like one big, citywide urinalysis, tests at municipal sewage plants in many areas of the United States and Europe, including Los Angeles County, have detected illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:16:27 AM CEST
Joints ‘must be tobacco free’ in Amsterdam
“Amsterdam will be going smoke-free from July 1st, and customers in the famous marijuana-selling coffee shops have been told that they will still be permitted to light up their cannabis joints - but only if they are free of tobacco.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:12:27 AM CEST
'The Cartels Are Refining their Semi-Submersibles'
They can travel up to 5,000 kilometers and are almost impossible to detect: US law enforcement agencies are struggling to intrecept semi-submersibles built in the jungles of Colombia. SPIEGEL ONLINE speaks to Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph L. Nimmich about the increasingly sophisticated methods employed by the drug cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:10:38 AM CEST
Colombia's Cocaine Cartels Learn a New Trick
The Columbian drug cartels have acquired a new weapon in their arsenal. They are now using small, submarine-like semi-submersibles assembled deep in the jungle to outmaneuver drug agents and traffic cocaine to North America.
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Topic: TOYS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:08:39 AM CEST
The Cathode Ray Tube site, old electronic glassware
On these 28 pages you will find a lot of interesting pictures from a part of my tube collection. Together with other information and links to sites who share the same interest I will try to give you a trip through time in which a lot of discoveries took place, the time roughly between 1850 and 1950, when most of our modern techniques were invented. Let's have a look at the first famous CRT, Camera tubes and famous demonstration tubes like the Crookes Maltese Cross tube. Also Röntgen (X-Ray), Geissler tubes and Ruhmkorff coils are part of this website. If you want to know more details about the topics, just follow the links on the pages to sites with in-depth information or biography from famous people like Ferdinand Braun, William Crookes or Heinrich Geissler.
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Topic: TOYS - on June 28, 2008 at 10:01:30 AM CEST
360º Light Field Display
The Graphics Lab at the University of Southern California has designed an easily reproducible, low-cost 3D display system with a form factor that offers a number of advantages for displaying 3D objects in 3D.
gl.ict.usc.edu
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