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...triggers but that their brains have lost some of their natural ability to suppress pain signals. To find out more, scientists are studying a part of the brain called the periaqueductal gray matter, which, says Dr. Welch in Kansas City, "switches off the pain response so that you can focus on the fight to survive. It's the reason why if you have a cut that you don't remember getting, it doesn't start to hurt until you actually look...
...fully effective," adding that "inspections are infrequent and of inconsistent quality." In that report, ATF was told to revise its staffing requirement to meet the three-year inspection goal. ATF spokeswoman Mixell says that while the bureau is far from its goal, some improvements have been made to focus the bureau's limited resources over the past three years. For example, says Mixell, ATF now conducts a face-to-face interview with every new applicant for a license. That is not the case for follow-on inspections, however, which are still sometimes conducted over the phone to save time...
...supposed to enforce." Giving ATF the resources it needs to enforce existing laws, says Helmke, should be something politicians on both sides of the aisle in Congress can agree on. "We're hopeful," says Helmke, "that post-Virginia Tech this might be an area the elected officials can focus...
...focus for Chicago? How to get more public school students - 92% of whom are minority and 86% poor - ready and bound for college. Only half of the city's high school freshmen make it to graduation day four or five years later, though the rate has inched up from 47% in 2001 to 52.7% in 2005, according to city figures. Last year 48% of Chicago's graduating seniors enrolled in college in the fall, according to the National Student Clearing House. Raising graduation rates, reducing the dropout numbers and ensuring college readiness - particularly among poor and minority students...
...financial aid provisions for summer internships and plans for an upcoming University-wide public service event dominated the focus of Undergraduate Council representatives during last night’s 20-minute meeting—the penultimate general assemblage of the UC for the year...