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  1. From Science News Letter, June 21, 1958

    New Shock Treatment — Neither electric stimulation nor convulsion may be necessary components in the electroshock treatment of certain types of mental illness…. A group of 97 mental patients … were assigned at random to one of five treatment groups: 1. conventional electroshock therapy (EST); 2. a combination of EST and the drug, anectine; 3. […]

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  2. Science Future

    June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Visit www.summerscience.org.uk/ July 6–10 Growers and researchers gather in Romania, for the European Association for Potato Research’s four-day congress. Visit www.eapr2008-brasov.com August 1 Total solar eclipse visible in parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China. Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html SN Onlinenew.sciencenews.org

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  3. Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation

    Comment from David Applegate, chair of the National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction and senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S.Geological