Some countries have abandoned psychosurgery altogether ; in others, for example the US and the UK, it is regulated and only used in a few centres on small numbers of people with depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ) who have already undergone years of treatment.

During the 1960s and 1970s psychosurgery became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings.

In this new, regulated era, a few facilities in some countries, such as the US, continue to use psychosurgery on small numbers of patients, with the number of operations declining further over the 30 years, a period during which there have been no major advances in ablative psychosurgery.

In the US the Massachusetts General Hospital has a psychosurgery program.

Other forms of psychosurgery continued to be legally practiced in controlled and regulated US centers and in Belgium, Finland, India, Sweden, the UK, and the Netherlands.

In 1977 the US Congress created the National Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to investigate allegations that psychosurgery — including lobotomy techniques — were used to control minorities and restrain individual rights.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

Post merger, the Amex equities business was branded " NYSE Alternext US ".

As part of the re-branding exercise, NYSE Alternext US was re-branded as NYSE Amex Equities.

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

In addition, ASU is ranked 78th in the world / 45th in the US by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and was named as one of " America's Best College Buys " by Forbes magazine.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency This coupling was made to reinforce the learning paradigm when English-language speakers used translators to address audiences in their own country.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

According to the US, the Cuban Government has taken no action against al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

" Chocolate Cake ", a humorous comment on American excesses that wasn't taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public, was released in June 1991 as the first single.

Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

Outside of the US, regulations often require this role to be taken by a third party.

Lesotho has taken advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ) to become the largest exporter of garments to the US from sub-Saharan Africa.

The V705 was completed in August 1985 and taken to the US where it rolled on the roads around Santa Barbara and got positive reactions.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

The Quasi War has taken on a significant role in modern debates over the distribution of war powers between the Executive and Legislative branches in the US.

The film has taken in US $ 139, 876, 417 at the US box office since its release.

Agreements with the EU have regulated fishing in the area to an extent but some inshore patrols would still be beneficial due to instances of illegal fishing. First steps in this direction have been taken by the US, which delivered a 27 foot ( 8. 2 m ) Boston Whaler inshore patrol vessel in 2005.

By comparison, under US law, " A trade secret, as defined under ( 3 ) ( A ), ( B ) ( 1996 ), has three parts: ( 1 ) information ; ( 2 ) reasonable measures taken to protect the information ; and ( 3 ) which derives independent economic value from not being publicly known.

In comparison, today's American daily tabloids are generally much less overheated and less oriented towards scandal and sensationalism than their predecessors, or their British counterparts, reduced to sections of only one-three pages as Internet sources and magazines such as US Weekly have taken up the mantle of disseminating most gossip.

On 3 March 2002, a single laser guided thermobaric bomb was used by the US army against cave complexes in which Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters had taken refuge in the Gardez region of Afghanistan.

She was taken over and converted into a transport by the US Navy during World War I.

October 14: Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes.

The license to reprint 2000 AD material in the US was later taken over by Quality Comics.

In the US, this word has been misinterpreted as related to nigger and taken as offensive.

US courts have taken action regarding the use of perchlorate in manufacturing pyrotechnic devices such as flares.

Lem Siddons, after mistakenly being taken POW during US Army War Games, is asked by a Lieutenant to " tie a sheepshank " to prove he's a Scoutmaster and not a spy.

3020 ( 2010 ), which challenged handgun bans in the Chicago and in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park, was taken up by the US Supreme Court.

The Emmy Award-winning project was, at US $ 68 million, one of the most expensive ventures taken for television.