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Gore's proposal would have a narrower impact, and is harder to understand, but count on this: those it would affect are solidly low- and middle-income people. Essentially, Gore would reward them with tax credits and refunds for government-approved good behavior: sending children to college, caring for an elderly relative or setting up certain kinds of savings accounts. It's social engineering via the tax code--something the Clinton Administration has been doing for years, and the sort of federal meddling that drives conservatives and libertarians crazy. It's a long way from the Bush approach of just...
...this month? That could cost you down the road. Rentport Inc. is collecting data from landlords on the timeliness of their tenants. While most are diligent about making their credit-card and car-lease payments on time, an estimated 5% slide on their rent checks, knowing it won't affect their credit rating. But now all three major credit-reporting agencies will be provided with this information. Rentport says tenants who pay their rent on time will improve their credit history. Certainly, using the data to avoid renting to potential deadbeats will help a landlord's bottom line...
...will Lieberman's religion affect the race? Democratic national chairman Ed Rendell had it about right when he said, before the choice was announced, "I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket." But that hasn't stopped people from opining that the most virulent anti-Semites don't vote (or will vote for Buchanan), that many live in Southern states Gore probably wouldn't win anyway, or that pro-Jewish sentiment could help him in key states like California, Florida and New York...
Gage now believes that changes in behavior--like exercising more--can affect neurogenesis and alter the brain's wiring. "The idea is that we have control over who we are, even as adults," he says. We're used to thinking that our minds control our bodies. Could it be the other way around? Could what we do change the structure of our brains? It's a radical idea--one that turns on its head accepted ideas of nature vs. nurture. And since Gage has some experience toppling long-standing biological truths, it's probably worth considering...
...faced some tough issues about the direction in which neuroscience and psychiatry are headed. Once the art of the medical world, psychiatry is now the focus of the latest pharmaceutical technology and biomolecular manipulation. The laboratory where I've been working takes a genetic approach to analysis of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD, otherwise known as manic depression) and schizophrenia, each of which is estimated to affect 1 percent of the population worldwide. Deep within the bowels of NIMH, our effort to climb to the seat of the mind had been relegated to a lab in the windowless basement--we spend...