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		<title>Xanax: Now Available at the Libraries?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kitschmag.com/watch/2009/04/07/xanax-now-available-at-the-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Evan Mulvihill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had the passing notion that Cornell University might secretly be a front of a giant drug operation? That Big Red might be in cahoots with Big Pharma? Well, a tipster sent on an interesting little Google search (at left) this morning that seems to confirm all of our worst fears. Although it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv95/CornellWatch/googlesearch.png" alt="A Google search of " align="left" height="253" width="478" />Have you ever had the passing notion that Cornell University might secretly be a front of a giant drug operation? That Big Red might be in cahoots with Big Pharma? Well, a tipster sent on an interesting little Google search (at left) this morning that seems to confirm all of our worst fears. Although it might be pretty sweet to be able to have those magical anxiety-dissolving pills of Xanax to lull cracked-out midnight oil-burners to sleep. Not satisfied, I investigated the fishy matter on library.cornell.edu further by &#8212; of course &#8212; searching &#8220;Xanax&#8221; in their little engine of their own.</p>
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<p>Indecipherable spam jargon! On a clearly library-affiliated page! The horror! I forwarded my findings onto the tipster, telling myself that the Xanax peddlers were crazy Canadian webtards and not, as I had hoped, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_and_Johnson" title="Johnson and Johnson">Johnson and Johnson</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer" title="Pfizer">Pfizer</a> or even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" title="Bayer">Bayer</a>. He responded back five minutes later that he didn&#8217;t see anything wrong with the page I&#8217;d sent him. I renavigated back, and thank God I took that screenshot, because the page is altogether pedestrian now:</p>
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<p>Look at the URLs. They&#8217;re both the same. I called the library to see what&#8217;s up and talked to a guy at the Circulation Desk, who wasn&#8217;t aware of the whole Xanax thing. He said he&#8217;s send the tip on to the people upstairs. Bored by the whole matter by now, I didn&#8217;t feel like doing the journalist thing and talking to them.</p>
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