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Nicotine Surprise

It's not that bad.

James Jang was down in the dumps. As a student at Stanford Medical School, he had been studying nicotine's effects on veins for a while, but he wasn't getting anywhere.



"He came to me and said his project was a failure," says associate professor John Cooke. "I asked, 'Is the equipment working?'"


"Yes," Jang said. "But the data is a little screwy."

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