Topic: MUSIK - on March 10, 2009 at 12:12:00 PM CET
The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own
Kick off Esquire.com's Music Week with our unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative list of the records your music collection requires. How many have you listened to?
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 10, 2009 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Grow your own drugs
Marianne Kavanagh meets James Wong, a young ethnobotanist, who grows his medicine in the garden.
Most of us look for a dock leaf when we've been stung by a nettle, but that's as far as it goes. We wouldn't dream of using plants to treat everyday ailments like eczema, sore throats, indigestion and insomnia. But James Wong, a 27-year-old ethnobotanist (a scientist who studies how people use plants), wants to change our minds. He passionately believes that safe, natural remedies can be made from the everyday plants you find in hedgerows, the back garden or local garden centres.
telegraph.co.uk Grow Your Own Drugs - 1. Fruit Grow Your Own Drugs - 2. Flowers
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 10, 2009 at 11:36:00 AM CET
Österreich als friedlicher Drogenmarkt
Die Zahl der Haschisch- und Kokain-Konsumenten steigt seit einigen Jahren deutlich an
Veränderungen gibt es auf dem Markt selbst, was sich auch bei Untersuchungen wie dem jährlich erscheinenden Drogenbericht des Gesundheitsministeriums spiegelt. Dessen jüngste Ausgabe wurde im Oktober 2008 vorgestellt und zeigt Auffälligkeiten bei Haschisch und Kokain. Auf die Frage, ob sie jemals in ihrem Leben einen Joint geraucht haben, antworteten im Jahr 1993 fünf Prozent der Wiener mit "ja". Im Jahr 2007 waren es fast viermal so viele: 19 Prozent stimmten zu.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 10, 2009 at 11:31:00 AM CET
Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30.
Happy birthday! 1979-2009.Thirty years. Pretty amazing that it's been that long since those crazy Dutchmen at Philips spun the technology off of laser discs as part of an optical digital audio disc demo in Eindhoven.
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