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...establishing that McVeigh was also in possession of a bomb. The most direct way to do that will be to call an FBI expert who will testify that McVeigh's clothing, tested after his arrest, showed traces of nitroglycerin and pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or petn, an explosive used in detonator cord. Prosecutors will also present evidence to show how, in the months before the bomb exploded, McVeigh set out to gather materials...
...spinal nerves from signaling the brain. But what they didn't know until the late 1980s is that these nerves are more than just glorified gatekeepers. They actually "remember" the body's past travails, causing permanent changes that are recorded in their molecular structure. "Think of the spinal cord as a voice-mail system," says neurobiologist Allan Basbaum of the University of California, San Francisco. "A message comes in and leaves something behind." The longer the injury persists, the more sensitive the spinal nerves become to painful stimuli--and the more intensely they signal the brain that something is wrong...
CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52. According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Part American Indian, much of Dorris' writing focused on the history and plight of Native Americans. "Native Americans: 500 Years After," and "A Guide to Research in Native American Studies," are among his better known works. But his book "The Broken Cord," earned him the most notoriety with a National...
...then pure terror," Bush said last week. "The cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
...Blue. Any way you look at it, man seems bent on his own obsolescence. Now two Rutgers University professors say they have hit upon the chemical that causes female orgasm, and one of these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem, bypassing the spinal column. That surprising discovery...