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By Thomas Bell, South East Asia Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:52PM BST 19/05/2008

Gordon Brown says that “people power” is helping to reveal the “true horrors” of the Burmese junta and to shame it into admitting more foreign aid.

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Mr Brown was speaking at a conference organised by Google

The Prime Minister said [...]

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By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News Magazine

Sixty-three years ago the first acid trip was taken by an unwitting research chemist, Albert Hofmann, who has died at the age of 102. To its detractors LSD is perhaps the most dangerous drug in the world, but did its advent really change society in Britain [...]

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LSD May Shed Hippie Image With Swiss Medical Study (Update1)
By Dermot Doherty
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May 1 (Bloomberg) — “Four decades after the Grateful Dead and Timothy Leary made acid trips a counter-cultural rite of passage, Rick Doblin is trying to shake the drug’s hippie image and reclaim its use as a medicine.
Doblin, who leads a group [...]

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The Preface of Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto
Copyright © 2008 by Ron Paul, Courtesy Grand Central Publishing.
“Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us “change,” and 2008 has been no different. But in the American political lexicon, “change” always means more of the same: more government, more looting of [...]

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