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...condition, as Ketter puts it, "is hugely familial." Broman herself is bipolar, though her illness was not diagnosed until adulthood. Children with one bipolar parent have a 10% to 30% chance of developing the condition; a bipolar sibling means a 20% risk; if both parents are bipolar, the danger rises as high as 75%. About 90% of bipolars have at least one close relative with a mood disorder...
WHAT IT DOES: One of the brain's memory centers. One layer of the hippocampus, the subiculum, helps recognize contexts that represent danger or reward...
...shield. GERMANY Inundated Cities As floodwaters receded in Austria and the Czech Republic, they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic Semper Opera House and Zwinger Gallery, with its great art collection. Across southeastern Germany, floods have forced more than 30,000 people from their homes and killed 11. RUSSIA Aid Worker Seized A Dutch employee of the international...
...editors, flattening all else that lies before it: stories of war and preparations for war, of corruption among the ?lites, of floods and droughts. What, no kidnapped kids today? Well, find some! That they're far too easy to find is undeniable. Still, there are other children in danger's path - harmed and neglected in a thousand ways that don't offer melodramatic storylines or a chance for TV viewers to play detective - whose photos will never be passed around at press conferences, and whose names will never be flashed above a freeway. While we may not know...
...This danger is not just a hypothetical problem. Studies by t he National Cancer Institute in conjunction with the California Environmental Protection Agency have found that between 40,000 and 58,000 Americans die every year as a direct consequence of secondhand smoke, over twice as many as die from AIDS. While it i s clear that many of these deaths are caused by exposure to smoke at home, it would be foolish to underestimate the number of deaths precipitated by exposure to smoke in the workplace...