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Roses proposes that amyloid has an accomplice: a blood protein called ApoE. Its main function seems to be transporting cholesterol, but according to Roses, ApoE can also latch on to amyloid and cart it into brain cells. How often that happens may depend on what type of ApoE a person has, which in turn depends on the genes that direct the making of ApoE. Those genes come in at least three varieties -- dubbed E2, E3 and E4 -- and everyone has two of the genes, one from each parent...
...Bradley, who is retiring after five terms. Riordan represents a strong turn toward the moderate Republican right, the result of a backlash against last year's traumatic riots and the city's relentless crime. He played the law-and-order angle to the hilt, arguing that jobs too depend on safe streets because "no business wants to come into a war zone...
They can sound fairly impressive now, though trends based on small numbers are inherently fluky and dollar figures may depend on what point a bureaucracy's accountants want to make. In the 13 parks of the Rocky Mountain region, there were eight fatal climbing accidents and 63 rescues last year (total cost: $179,000) and six deaths and 40 rescues (cost: $247,000) the year before. In the Western region national parks, including Yosemite, there were no fatalities and 103 rescues last year, and one fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive...
More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...
Council members say they hope such incidents do not recur next fall. They say the revamped council will benefit from its new bylaws. But even if the bureaucratic solution proves to be sound, the efficacy of the council seems to depend more on how resolute the members are in pursuing a coherent agenda than on how rigorously a list of rules frames their work...