UK’s haste on drug ban
Drug control procedures in the UK came under fire this week after a toxicology report on two teenagers said to have died from mephedrone – cases instrumental in the imposition of an emergency ban on the drug – showed neither had actually taken it.
Quake alert
The US Pacific Northwest should brace itself for a major earthquake. In a US Geological Survey report, Chris Goldfinger at Oregon State University surveyed undersea landslides to gauge how many quakes above magnitude 8 have struck in the past 10,000 years. Their frequency suggests a 37 per cent chance that there…
