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Everything about Mick Jagger was exaggerated, starting with his mouth, which, when wide open, seemed to occupy a much greater area of his face than it should. His movements were distinctive and ostentatious; he flailed his arms out at the audience, fingers extended and wrists bent back, kicked up his legs, bent at the knees. His whole dance seemed to be inspired by some kind of stilted stylish treading of water, and he did it freely and extemporaneously all around the stage. There were catwalks set up from the stage out towards the sides of the field, which Mick danced...
...heard something about it, but I didn't pay too much attention," said Samantha N. Bent...
Such thorny human concerns are at the heart of a pioneering research effort that is bent on clinically identifying the long-term emotional and social effects of early genetic testing. Directed by neuropsychologist Jason Brandt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, geneticists and ethicists to track the consequences of testing for the genetic mutation that causes deadly Huntington's disease. The program, says Brandt, "is seeking to determine how best to offer this test...
...loud, flailing sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared an IV, but the boy's blood pressure was so low and his arms so thin that she could not find a vein...
...right of the Native Americans to any tribal identity or land holdings. Roughly a century after the original devastating program for "Americanizing" the Native Americans, the same ugly scenario is being played out in California: a Native American attempt at self-sufficiency is held up by a state government bent on meddling with success...