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...bell, scientists today have taught rats to fear all kinds of things--from buzzers to lights--by giving them electrical shocks when they hear the buzzer or see the light. The animals quickly learn to fear the stimulus even in the absence of a shock. Then researchers destroy small portions of the rats' brains to see what effect that has on their reactions (an experiment that would be impossible to conduct in humans). By painstakingly matching the damaged areas with changes in behavior, scientists have, bit by bit, created a road map of fear as it travels through...
First a little background: no one knows why the immune system goes haywire and starts triggering autoimmune disorders, but at least one culprit is a particular kind of immune cell called a T cell. In Type 1 diabetes (which used to be known as juvenile-onset diabetes), T cells destroy the cells of the pancreas. In multiple sclerosis, they cross the biomolecular barrier that protects the brain and attack the outer covering of nerve cells. If you could deactivate the right T cells, you might be able to slow down the degenerative process--and maybe halt it altogether...
...Italian under the title "The End of Liberty: Toward a New Totalitarianism") is longer than the American version, which has either been revised or sanitized, depending on how you look at it (the original contains a paragraph in which Vidal speculates that the wealthy Osama bin Laden chose to destroy the World Trade Center, which contained the offices of American Express, to avoid having to pay for the airline tickets of the hijackers, purchased with American Express cards...
...source materials, most notably Lynne McTaggart’s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times. Sentences from McTaggart’s book were reproduced almost verbatim, without attribution in Goodwin’s The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The plagiarism was serious enough to prompt publisher Simon & Schuster to destroy all remaining copies of the book in lieu of the publication of a revised, corrected version. Most disturbingly, Goodwin has admitted that she borrowed from several other sources on other occasions. This as a disappointing mistake from a Harvard overseer; Goodwin is a leader of the University?...
...torn foreign correspondence trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover the truth of the conflict in Afghanistan was to go there himself. Made up of both text and comix, "Afghanistan" treats us to an inside look at the life the Afghani people and the journos living among them...