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  MDMA Literature Overview July 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During July 2003, two studies of Ecstasy user demographics, one case report, one (brief) review, one report detailing drug use functions, five in-vitro or non-human animal studies and two forensic/chemistry studies (not summarized) were located.
2003), and approximately 10% of a random sample of undergraduates reported lifetime Ecstasy use (Boyd et al.
2003), the authors hypothesized that the effects of Ecstasy use on dopamine cells were sped up and more apparent in people predisposed to develop Parkinson’s disease.
www.maps.org /research/mdma/litupdates/overviews/07.03.html   (884 words)

  
 Learn more about 2003 in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
March 20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq, preceded by a surgical air strike on the suspected bunker of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
March 22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their shock and awe campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad using cruise missiles fired from US Navy warships, Royal Navy submarines and B-52 bombers; and laser guided missiles fired by Stealth Bombers.
November 12 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /2/20/2003.html   (3003 words)

  
 Overview of MDMA-related Literature for March 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During March 2003, one human clinical trial, one study in ecstasy users, 2 other studies in humans (a post-mortem study, a study of blood samples, a study of street ecstasy), 2 case reports, 3 in vitro and non-human animal studies, and one forensic study (not summarized) were found.
2003) and a case series of fatalities occurring after the coadministration of the MAO inhibitor moclobemide (Vuori et al.
2003) as well as human studies with the related compound MDE (Spitzer et al.
www.maps.org /research/mdma/litupdates/overviews/03.03.html   (758 words)

  
 NEA Writers' Corner: 2003 Literature Fellowships (Poetry) - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 2003 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded 38 Creative Writing Poetry Fellowships, each in the amount of $20,000 and ten grants to published translators in the amount of $10,000 or $20,000.
Literature Fellowships not only give writers national recognition - often for the first time - and invaluable validation of their talent to peers, agents, publishers, and presenters around the country, they also give writers valuable creative time away from their daily jobs.
The record of the Literature Fellowships program shows unparalleled support for writers at critical, early stages of their careers.
www.arts.gov /features/Writers/2003poetry.html   (600 words)

  
 UC Riverside 2002-2003 - Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages
Course requirements are: two graduate courses in a first literature (8 units), one graduate course in a second literature (4 units), one graduate course in a third literature (4 units), and 12 additional elective units.
Whatever the combination of literatures, or literatures and interdisciplinary field, students are required to study a number of masterworks of world literature to be determined in consultation with the graduate advisor and other faculty.
From Renaissance travelogue literature to postmodern mythologies of the Orient, critical and theoretical issues are discussed in the light of the dynamic interactions between the East and the West.
www.catalog.ucr.edu /2002-03/cplt1.html   (11726 words)

  
 Peoples Review - January 16-22, 2003 : Literature cannot flourish until poverty, illiteracy remain: Rajani Thapa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A. In the past people used to go for literature, and to music for pleasure and entertainment because there were not other things for pleasures, as there are now.
Literature and music were considered as important to make the society more aware and conscious.
If literature is the outcome of a civilized society, every body should give it a hand for its progress.
www.peoplesreview.com.np /2003/01/16012003/facetoface2.html   (749 words)

  
 Collaborative's Literature Digest - June 2003
Sacramento Bee, June 27, 2003, Free trolley, bus rides for seniors 75 or older: Swayed by seniors' lobbying, Regional Transit lowers the age requirement from 80.
Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2003, The 'Granny Unit' Option for a Rental-Squeezed L.A.: A partial answer to the crunch is staring the City Council in the face--and is endorsed by the state Legislature.
Sacramento Bee, June 9, 2003, City limits growth to protect Travis: Fairfield's City Council creates a buffer zone the base may not use, while angry business interests say the land should be reserved for homes.
www.sactaqc.org /Resources/Literature/0603_Literature.htm   (3515 words)

  
 MIT OpenCourseWare | Literature
Literature has been a central experience for the majority of MIT's undergraduates for more than 25 years: over that time approximately 75 percent of all undergraduates have studied the subject.
Designed to serve students majoring, minoring, and concentrating in Literature as well as those students who may get to take only one or two Literature subjects while at the Institute, the Literature curriculum at MIT offers a wide range of undergraduate classes at Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.
Staffed by well-published, influential scholars and creative writers, the Literature faculty is recognized for its superior and committed teaching.
ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Literature   (368 words)

  
 Oxford Conference: Reading Screens (2003) - Literature - British Council - Arts
In her paper 'Adaptation: Narrative space into heritage space', Monika suggests that adaptation may be seen 'as an act of possession, as an appropriation' and that other, more familiar, forms of heritage culture can be enlisted to engage students in creative acts of retroactive reading.
Proceeding from Jennings’s (1996) proposal for 'the analysis of theme in literature and film, which does not rely on the technical distinctions between the two media', he puts forward a strong argument for the graded reader as a form of literary adaptation, and provides a close reading for the classroom of several key scenes.
She is also tenured lecturer in English Literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández", Buenos Aires, and is lecturer in charge of the virtual classroom on "Strategies for the Teaching of a Foreign Language" at the Virtual University of Quilmes, Argentina.
www.britishcouncil.org /arts-literature-oxford-conference-reading-screens.htm   (1962 words)

  
 2003 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature.
See 2003 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of the winners of those awards.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_in_literature   (327 words)

  
 Herald Community
Keith Grant left this paper in my hands shortly after the 2003 election, leaving me to cover a city with a lame-duck City Council, an incoming administration that had no use for the Herald, and a city manager, Harold Porr, who was spending his days surfing Monster.com.
If the Republicans are as genuinely opposed to overdevelopment as their 2003 campaign literature purported, the Democrats argued, they would have demanded the resignation of every Zoning Board member who approved the Brighton and Atlantic Hotel condo variances.
With this literature, the Democrats are trying to change history, and to frost over a big reason they were dismissed two years ago.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15379120&BRD=1601&PAG=461&dept_id=478677&rfi=6   (661 words)

  
 December 2003 Literature & Newsletter
The literature is intended to provide a broad spectrum of views and does not necessarily represent the views of the Collaborative or staff.
Sacramento Bee, December 22, 2003, Back-seat driver: 'Smart Commute' mortgage may be risky for some.
Sacramento Bee, December 16, 2003, Truxel line to airport chosen: The RT board votes for the light-rail route despite residents' opposition.
www.sactaqc.org /Resources/Literature/1203_Literature.htm   (4406 words)

  
 ipedia.com: 2003 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the United States, Britain, Spain and other allies.
All over the world, many months in 2003 were devoted to the discussion, debate, protest, and organization of this war, making it probably the most discussed (and controversial) war in modern history.
2003 was also a landmark year for the European Union with many states from the former Soviet Bloc voting to join.
www.ipedia.com /2003.html   (3645 words)

  
 Home Care NetWork - Literature Reviews 2003
This systematic review of the literature on the application of telemedicine in the management of heart failure found 18 observational studies and six randomised controlled trials published between 1966 and 2002.
Among the benefits suggested by this literature were a reduction in hospital bed-days, early detection of deterioration with reduced readmission rates and reduced length of hospital stay.
The fact that most of these studies were observational argues for caution in evaluating the literature but the results of this review were encouraging and support well designed clinical trials of telemonitoring for heart failure.
www.chestnet.org /networks/home_care/reviews/2003/management.php   (1411 words)

  
 2003 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
March 20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.
March 22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their shock and awe campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad.
June 5 - Female suicide bomber detonates bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
open-encyclopedia.com /2003   (3595 words)

  
 THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES / Conference 7.-9.11.2003 / Section: Literature versus Nation in German-Language ...
Literature versus Nation in German-Language Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Although the ideas of nation, national literature and culture changed in the course of decades, the relationship between nation, language and literature remains problematic, since precisely in art multiple identities, mixing of languages and mutual influences between cultures always stand in the foreground.
The aim of this section is to show, on the basis of different examples, how artists and authors deal with the various national and nationalistic tendencies, especially in Germany.
www.inst.at /kulturen/2003/05literaturen/sektion_schinina_e.htm   (322 words)

  
 NEA Writers' Corner: 2003 Literature Fellowships (Poetry) - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This investment in American letters has ensured that a diversity of voices has defined our national literature during the second half of the 20th century, and has helped to encourage innovation and creativity within a marketplace that rewards convention and homogeneity.
For each literature fellow listed you will find a sample from the winning manuscript, a photograph, a biography, a brief author statement, and an audio file of the writer reading from the featured work.
We invite you to read and listen to these poets and translators; we're sure you'll agree that although it is a hard road for the creative writer in the United States today, America's rich literary heritage persists and flourishes.
www.nea.gov /features/Writers/2001poetry.html   (939 words)

  
 UC Riverside 2002-2003 - Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages
While students majoring in Comparative Literature must have a knowledge of the languages involved in the literatures of their choice, Comparative Literature courses themselves are open to all students.
Civilization studies are concerned with the culture of the language or literature of a student's focus, and with the people of the country where that language or literature exists or existed.
Vernacular literature from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties.
www.catalog.ucr.edu /2002-03/cplt.html   (8379 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Books / Coetzee Wins 2003 Nobel Literature Prize to Acclaim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
South African novelist J.M. Coetzee was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday, a choice praised by critics who acclaimed him as an accessible writer who is both literary and politically engaged.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - South African novelist J.M. Coetzee was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday, a choice praised by critics who acclaimed him as an accessible writer who is both literary and politically engaged.
He did not turn up for either Booker ceremony and could not immediately be tracked down by the Swedish Academy to be told he had won the 10 million crown ($1.3 million) prize.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/10/02/coetzee_wins_2003_nobel_literature_prize_to_acclaim   (536 words)

  
 Fall 2003 literature.sdsu.edu Course Descriptions
In this experimental, dynamic and controversial Fall 2003 section of "English 220, Introduction to Literature," we will use the concept of nakedness to explore the minds, bodies and art of women and men in some of the tastiest, most outrageous and eye-opening literature this side of the planet.
In English 543, "Victorian Literature," we are faced with a daunting task: to examine in depth at least some of the voluminous outpourings of the century's many writers.
This 2003 version of English 631, Form and Theory of Fiction, designed for flexible-minded students in creative writing and literature, has been structured in the direction of critical resistance, sometimes referred to as subversion; and terminal pleasure, sometimes referred to as delirium.
literature.sdsu.edu /2003/fall2003descriptions.html   (6810 words)

  
 Literature Digest - Sept 2003
Texas Transportation Institute, September 2003, The 2003 Annual Urban Mobility Report, by David Schrank and Tim Lomax, 832 KB PDF.
Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2003, Activists Push Their Agendas Via the Internet: Web sites are changing the way development projects are debated, as the new approach is an effective way to organize opposition.
Brookings Institution, September 30, 2003, Managing Metropolitan Growth: Reflections on the Twin Cities Experience, by Ted Mondale and William Fulton {648 KB PDF} Many debates about whether and how to manage urban growth on a metropolitan or regional level focus on the extremes of laissez-faire capitalism and command-and-control government regulation.
www.sactaqc.org /Resources/Literature/0903_Literature.htm   (4328 words)

  
 2003 in literature Definition / 2003 in literature Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
also: 2002 in literature Events March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary.
In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
June 1 - Sasebo - Controversy briefly surrounded Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story (known on the internet as Nevada-Tan) murdered her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimicked a scene from the story.
www.elresearch.com /2003_in_literature   (506 words)

  
 Literature Residencies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Recently she finished the first draft of a book of autobiographical, gastronomical essays for Penguin Books which will be published in 2003.
The book is the result of six years research which included meeting and interviewing many of the pioneer Japanese residents about their family stories.
During her Asialink residency in 2003, Jones will expand her current project which describes the adventures and observations of the first known Australians to visit Japan.
www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au /arts/residencies/LITres2003.html   (1135 words)

  
 2003 GRANT AWARDS - Literature Fellowships (Poetry)
The 2003 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers in poetry, encouraging the production of new work by affording these writers the time and means to write.
The 2003 Literature Fellowship recognizes the following writers in translating literature and providing insights into other countriesÍ cultures, politics, and values.
Winner of the 2000 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Nordbrandt is one of the most significant poets to have emerged in Scandinavia since the end of World War Two.
arts.endow.gov /grants/recent/03grants/Lit.html   (372 words)

  
 Scientific Literature - 2003
Fitzcharles MA, Boulos P. "Inaccuracy in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome: analysis of referrals." Rheumatology (Oxford) 2003 Feb;42(2):263-7.
Goldenberg D, Smith N. "Fibromyalgia, rheumatologists, and the medical literature: a shaky alliance." Journal of Rheumatology 2003 Jan;30(1):151-3.
Maconochie N, Doyle P, Davies G, Lewis S, Pelerin M, Prior S, Sampson P. "The study of reproductive outcome and the health of offspring of UK veterans of the Gulf war: methods and description of the study." BMC Public Health 2003 Jan 10;3(1):4.
www.esri.org /scilit/2003articles.html   (6252 words)

  
 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003 is awarded to the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee
The playful metanovel Foe spins a yarn about the incompatibility and inseparability of literature and life, told by a woman who yearns to be part of a major narrative when in reality only one of minor importance is offered.
With Life and Times of Michael K, which has its roots in Defoe as well as in Kafka and Beckett, the impression that Coetzee is a writer of solitude becomes clearer.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/2003/press.html   (840 words)

  
 XMCA Mail 2003_08: literature and psychology
And the examples are all from literature, which is the
insights from literature which can be found in a lot of LSV's writting.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Sep 01 2003 - 01:00:06 PDT
lchc.ucsd.edu /MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2003_08.dir/0014.html   (572 words)

  
 Literature--ANL Jul 2003
This is a report on a survey of 94 public and private Australian institutions in early 2003, to see how they were reacting to the closure of their country's only conservation training center.
The National Preservation Office, which is supported by the British Library and nine other collections-holding institutions in the British Isles, publishes the NPO Journal, a first-rate source of preservation information, which will be made available to readers without charge, starting next April, on the BL's web page.
Chapter 2 summarizes the results of the literature search (e.g., for colorants, natural fibers, pulp, paper and wood; fluorescent whitening agents; and photographic and reprographic materials.
palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/abbey/an/an26/an26-5/an26-513.html   (1091 words)

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