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Researchers have discovered a genetic reason for dyslexia -- a problem that keeps millions from reading well. Scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder have traced the disorder to a gene located somewhere in chromosome 6, the same pesky piece of DNA that also contains genes contributing to hay fever, migraine headaches, asthma, thyroid disease and allergies. The discovery may help in early detection of dyslexia, which could prompt early treatment of the disorder and lessen its effects on children's lives. About 20% of the population is born with the problem...
Some killjoys think the states will rue the day that they got carried away by tax-cut fever. The rise in state revenues is not sustainable, says Hal Hovey, editor and publisher of State Budget & Tax News, a bimonthly publication. He believes spending will again be pushed up by "two elephants": Medicaid spending, which will rise once the economy slows, and the severe pressure of rising prison populations. So states, he thinks, will have to either cut other services or raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should...
...Civil War (which set all-time viewing records when it was broadcast on pbs in September 1990) was carefully scheduled so that it would air in the sweet spot of the baseball season: on consecutive nights (with a two-day weekend break) starting Sept. 18, just as pennant fever was heating up but before the play-offs and World Series. Now, with a strike settlement seemingly as far off as ever, Baseball may well give fans their only trip to the ballpark this fall. "If the strike affects us," says Burns, "I think it's going to help, because...
Clearly there is no way to prevent human exposure to microbes. But the risks can be reduced. To minimize bacterial resistance, for example, doctors can be stingier with antibiotics. "We've been careless," says Dr. Robert Daum, a University of Chicago pediatrician. "Every childhood fever does not require antibiotics." Nor does a healthy farm animal...
...while some other arenaviruses have been known to doctors for at least two decades, Sabia was never seen before 1990. In that year, a female agricultural engineer checked into a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a high fever. Within days she was dead. Brazilian scientists tried to identify the infectious agent; one of their number fell ill and nearly died in the process. But they could determine only that it was a member of the arenavirus clan, so they sent a sample on to Yale for further identification...