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shells rocks their sprawling prison complex, a stark reminder of the civil war raging outside.
• They are the inmates of Aleppo's central prison, caught in the deadly stalemate of Syria's civil war.
• Rebels have been besieging the facility for the past five months, saying they are determined to free the more than 4,000 detainees inside. Fighters have barreled suicide car bombs into the front gates twice, lob shells into the compound and battle frequently with the hundreds of guards and troops holed up inside. Still, they've been unable to capture the prison.
• Meanwhile, more than 150 prisoners have died during the siege, killed by shelling, dying from lack of medicine or outright executed by guards, opposition groups say.
• The siege is emblematic of the bloody, cruel war of attrition into which Syria's conflict has descended during its third year. In the north, including Aleppo province, rebels have succeeded in seizing large swaths of countryside. But they have been unable to take control of urban centers. The military of President Bashar Assad has been able to hold onto bases and other strongpoints around the area, from which they can bombard rebel-held communities -- but they can't take back territory.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- A trove of Timothy Leary files, much of it previously unpublished, could shed new light on the LSD guru, his controversial research into psychedelic drugs and the emergence of the '60s counterculture.
• The New York Public Library, which acquired the vast archive for an undisclosed sum from the Leary estate in 2011, is making the material available for the first time Wednesday to scholars and the public.
• The archive "is the missing link in every attempt to piece together an account of research into Timothy Leary and the emergence of scientific research into psychedelic drugs and popular drug counterculture," said Denis Berry, a trustee for the Leary estate.
• Leary, who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," was one of the most polarizing figures of the counterculture. He advocated the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs including LSD and psychedelic mushrooms. Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Kerouac, Aldous Huxley and other noted figures frequently visited

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