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...host cells. Nature may have designed NR2B-based receptors to taper off in adult brains for a reason. Some scientists fear that the altered mice may be prone to strokes. "You might worry about what happens when these animals get old," says neuroscientist Larry Squire of the University of California, San Diego...
Paradoxically, the near eradication of many diseases in the U.S. has caused many Americans to risk dispensing with vaccinations. "Today's parents don't know about polio and diphtheria," says Dr. Natalie Smith of the California Department of Health Services. Nor, she warns, are they always aware that in a shrinking world, polio and other infectious diseases can be "only a plane ride away." These are points that parents surely ought to consider if they're thinking of not getting their kids vaccinated...
Scheck and Neufeld also want more laws allowing the wrongly imprisoned to sue for damages. Only half a dozen states currently have such statutes, and some have low caps--like California's $10,000 maximum. If Dennis Fritz had slipped and fallen in a government building, he could have sued for millions. After being incarcerated for 12 years for a crime he didn't commit, he can't sue for anything...
Branding is, well, a hot trend largely due to Fakir Musafar, 69, a former ad executive who calls himself a shaman and devotes his life to bod-mod, along with other more fantastic practices like O-Kee-Pa, a mystical Native American body-suspension ceremony. Musafar started a California state-licensed branding school in 1992 and has spread his philosophy through a website and a quarterly magazine called Body Play. He claims that branding is now administered by some 50 people in the Western world and could hit the mainstream in the way piercing did a few years...
RIDE WITH REAGAN Will 5,000 motorists stick one on for the Gipper? The California State Assembly has approved a Ronald Reagan license plate. (The Reagan library suggests the design below.) If the Governor signs the bill and drivers order it, the plate will be available...