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...course of researching this possibility, they found that switching off the receptor in a healthy brain cell led to the death of that cell - an unexpected and troubling result, given that many common anesthetics block the same receptor. At first this made little sense, but other researchers began to speculate that preventing calcium entry might be the cause of injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yes, those immortal snows are vanishing (actually, they're glaciers, but we can blame Ernest Hemingway for that bit of poetic license), as Gore's global-warming documentary contends, but they've been receding since the early 1900s at least - long before the planet began to warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

Schwartz asked what would happen when the five areas of focus Lehner mentioned began to compete, while Schrag questioned whether the alternative fuel strategies Lehner proposed would be as cost efficient as he suggested...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Debates Climate Policy | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...deflected the attack. In a 1989 thesis for Regent University, McDonnell had argued that working women were "detrimental" to family and that the government should favor married couples over "homosexuals or fornicators." McDonnell fought back, saying he's changed his views since writing the 20-year-old document. He began featuring his three daughters, one of them an Iraq war veteran, in his commercials and made a big push with women's events. And in the latest Washington Post poll, McDonnell led Deeds by seven percentage points as more trusted to handle women's issues. The negative attacks hurt Deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Race Gives Republicans a Blueprint for Success | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

PBHA Director of Programs Robert J. Bridgeman said the trick-or-treating traditions began before he arrived at PBHA 15 years...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: For Kids, Treats No Trick | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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