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Breaking ground at Har Homa just as negotiations on a "final status" agreement were supposed to get under way last week seemed so unnecessary, so calculated to disrupt the delicate proceedings. To reassure his hard-line constituents that he would not back down, Netanyahu complained he was "fed up" with international charges that "everything we do is a violation of the accords and everything the Palestinians say is in compliance." To appease the peace camp, he tossed out an old proposal to accelerate the final-status talks so that agreement on the hard issues--such as Jerusalem, borders, Palestinian sovereignty...
...neurons to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, generating an energy crisis inside the cell. A competing hypothesis maintains that Alzheimer's begins not with beta amyloid but with a protein called tau. Abnormal variants of this protein, say scientists, clutter the interiors of neurons with tangled filaments that disrupt cellular metabolism...
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...eating seafood chowder that had been laced with PCP. Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior. "It would be easy to say the crew was disgruntled, but it was the last night of shooting [there]... It would be a dumb time to disrupt things," he reasons. Police have yet to crack the case...
...vexing. But engineers and scientists are concerned about the potential for more serious problems. Just last month, at a conference at Montana State University, scientists warned that storms in space--like hurricanes and earthquakes--could have a devastating impact on society. Among other things, a large storm could totally disrupt communications over large swaths of the planet and cause power outages capable of paralyzing major urban centers...