=20 "rot and assimilate..." <morning.blargh> Heroin addiction gene identified and blocked Jennifer Viegas 15:00 31 May 2005 Scientists hav= e not only identified a critical gene involved in heroin addiction relapse,= but they have also successfully blocked it, eliminating cravings for the d= rug. The study was conducted on heroin-addicted rats. But the r= esearchers now think that, within a few years, better treatments will becom= e available to human heroin users who cannot quit due to insidious cycles o= f relapse. [Read More...[1]] Th= e Birth of the Synthesizer By Jason Silverman 02:00 AM J= un. 01, 2005 PT Somewhere along the path between Stradivari= us and Pro Tools sits an unprepossessing and grandfatherly man named Robert= Moog. Moog (rhymes with vogue) sold his first synthesizer, the= Moog, in 1965. Inthe 40 years since, these musical instruments -- and, Mo= og will tell you,they are musical instruments -- have changed contemporary= music. [Read More...[2]] Would you have allowed Bill Gates to be born? By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. 12:33 p.m. ET May 31, 2005 Who= needs Bill Gates? No, I don=E2=80=99t mean who needs a gazillionaire corpo= rate titan, a man whose company, Microsoft, took in billions of dollars las= t year by controlling nearly all the software used to run nearlyevery comp= uter on the planet. No, I mean, literally, who needs him? If yo= u could go back in time and stop the birth of the world=E2=80=99s most famo= us nerd, would you? [Read More...[3]] </morning.blargh> "...so hot to annihilate" -- Posted by sku11fukkr to ...Come The Wolves[4] at 6/1/2005= 10:13:00 AM --- Links --- 1 3D"http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=3Ddn7= 2 3D"http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67668,00.ht= 3 3D"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7899821/"; 4 3D"http://digitalucifer.net/=