Low doses of marijuana may improve memory and help fight Alzheimers?!

Pretty cool. Low doses were shown, in mice, to reduce levels of inflammation associated with Alzheimers. They are cautioning that you can't extrapolate it to human scale right now, further "...cautioned that any benefits wouldn't be experienced by people whose brains have already started to deteriorate, nor those whose brains are still forming. But for adults looking to prevent dementia, marijuana could play a role — albeit at very small doses, well below the level of psychoactivity.

"It will take the recreational use out of it," said Marchalant, who made a rough extrapolation from rat doses to a single human puff of pot."

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/marijuana-could.html

GM & Ford CEOs say no to $1 salary in exchange for gov't aid

Heh. I didn't remember that Lee Iacocca accepted that deal when he resurrected Chrysler all those years ago; the current head of Chrysler was willing to negotiate the point. It's intended as a symbolic offering that the C levels are willing to sacrifice to save their company, I guess they're not quite as altruistic or have as much faith in their companies as they might like to appear to have.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811191506DOWJONESDJONLINE000837_FORTUNE5.htm


And in another article, Mitt Romney says don't bail out Detroit: force them to fix their own problems or fail. He says that bailing them out now would prolong the agony and guarantee future failure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&rss=&adxnnlx=1227200794-SUNxeHNW+PQw6oB2+TtRhA

Since it's an NYT post, the link could go dead, so search for Let Detroit Go Bankrupt and Mitt Romney to find it in the future.