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Columns::September 22, 2003

Around academe

Software reduced at Calif. colleges
As a result of a new licensing and online-sales agreement that the Microsoft Corporation has made with two higher-education consortia, many college students in California will be able to purchase Microsoft software at dramatically reduced prices. Microsoft’s agreement is intended to be a strategic move to increase its sales of software to college students, since software pirating is popular among that age group.

Scientists retract Ecstasy study
A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins University has withdrawn a widely publicized report on the harmful health effects of the drug Ecstasy. The study concluded that recreational users of Ecstasy might be doing extensive damage to their brains’ dopamine receptors and increasing their risk of developing a condition similar to Parkinson’s disease later in life. A retraction printed in the journal Science says nine of the 10 primates in the study were mistakenly given methamphetamine rather than the intended drug methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more popularly known as Ecstasy. The error was discovered when the researchers were unable to replicate their findings.

--Leslie Wiggins

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