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What keeps the news from being worse? In a word: China. It has been affected by the Asian turmoil, but not much. China is still running a huge trade surplus; its currency, the yuan, is holding steady; and inflation is under control. The change of government in Hong Kong is...
Scientists say it is too soon to know why these Pfiesteria became toxic, but most suspect "nutrient loading," that is, an excess of nutrition pouring into the waters in which the bacteria live. The nutrients could come from many sources, including sewage- treatment plants. But in an area that is...
It is also not surprising that serotonin deficits can give rise to very different illnesses, depending on what part of the brain is affected. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example, probably arises in the striatum, a part of the brain that controls voluntary movements. Princeton's Jacobs believes that, based on...
Both types of antidepressant had major side effects, though, including profound drowsiness and heart palpitations. The reason, scientists generally agreed, was that they affected brain chemistry too broadly. The research seemed to point to serotonin as the most important mood-enhancing chemical, though not the only one, and so neurochemists...
It would be nice to think of civilization as a long process by which such crude genetic determinism (the bigger guy wins) is replaced with finer and fairer values. But genes are barely less important today. There is, of course, the sensitive issue of intelligence. Many people think of the...