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...politics, 1996 might as well be the last century. The hallowed game plan--hold your base, then hook the swing voters--gets trickier with each election, as the loyal party bases shrink and the big clump of independents grows. But it is especially hard for Gore this year. Gore's base is spoiled and soft after eight years in power--in one poll he drew only 78% of core Democrats. Bush's is so hungry to win it put its differences aside long ago: Bush has the support of 95% of the G.O.P. base, and so has been able...
...that everyone makes beta amyloid throughout his brain and body (more on that later). But people who, for genetic reasons, tend to get Alzheimer's at an early age--in their 40s or 50s--seem to shape the protein into a stickier version that is more likely to clump together. By inhibiting an enzyme called gamma secretase, which facilitates amyloid production, researchers hope to push amyloid production so low that no new plaques will form...
...California in San Francisco--at least not yet. But he has managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...
...worried first-years can take heart. Though the networks seem impenetrable and intimidating, that's not always the case. Often, people who know each other only cursorily will clump together during the first few weeks, seeming like longtime buddies...
HAPPY HEARTS The antidepressant Zoloft may be good for the heart as well as the soul. A preliminary report suggests that Zoloft thins blood in depressed patients. That's especially helpful because depressed folks seem to have blood platelets that clump together more readily--a major risk factor for heart attack. Indeed, after taking Zoloft for six weeks, patients ended up with platelets comparable to those of folks with no sign of the blues...