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  1. Health & Medicine

    Mind Numbing: Anesthesia in baby rats stunts brain development

    General anesthetic drugs commonly used in pediatric surgery, when given to baby rats, trigger brain cells to commit a cellular form of suicide that leads to lasting memory and learning deficits.

    By Kendall Morgan
  2. Humans

    Budget Boosts and Busts: R&D for Defense, NASA garner funding rise

    The President's $2.23 trillion federal budget proposal contains nearly $123 billion to fund federal research and development, an increase of about $8 billion over last year’s proposal.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Agriculture

    Bt Cotton: Yields up in India; pests low in Arizona

    Two cotton-growing centers that could hardly differ more—small farms in India and industrial fields in Arizona—provide case studies that show the bright side of a widespread genetically engineered crop.