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...nerve cells, raising questions about their ability to properly learn fear. To test this ability, researchers exposed mutant mice and the control group to a small shock immediately after hearing a loud noise. When hearing the same noise 24 hours later, the “knockout” mice froze in place only about 60 percent as long as normal mice. Other tests were conducted to see if the mice had abnormal hearing or pain sensitivities, but this did not appear to be the case. When normal and mutant mice were placed in a new environment, the mutant mice spent...
...stage, Parker, 19, drove to her right and leaped toward the basket. Her opponent rose to block her shot. What followed had probably never before happened in the history of hoops: Parker dunked the ball over the player's outstretched hand, as several men playing a pickup game nearby froze, jaws agape. A girl had dunked not only on a guy but on a guy who played major college basketball. Her victim? "I promised him I would not tell you that," says Parker. "He's already got it bad around campus. If it gets out there, it's going...
Thomas Badian was expecting a package, just not this one. Standing in his doorway, smiling, he opened the envelope a courier handed to him. Then he froze, and the color drained from his face. It was over: after two years overseas, the former New York City hedge-fund operator had been located. Badian slammed the door of his posh Vienna, Austria, apartment in the heart of the city's embassy quarter--but not before being officially served with a civil lawsuit linking him to the beleaguered U.S. commodities firm Refco and tying him and Refco to a type of fraud...
...party is yelping like they were watching someone being brutally consumed by a gang of rats. No need to worry though, it’s probably just “Gold Digger.” One time (of many) I was mid-conversation with a girl, when suddenly she froze as if we were playing a game of Dr. Pepper at a third cousin’s bat mitzvah. I looked at her as I would at an epileptic Hmong child (very curiously, that is), and she proceeded to rap every word of the entire song. I immediately felt...
...active workers covered in the private sector declined from 22 million to 17 million. They are the last members of what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations in the FORTUNE 1000 killed or froze their defined-benefit plans. Most recently, Hewlett-Packard, long one of the most admired U.S. companies, pulled the plug on guaranteed pensions for new workers. An HP spokesman said the company had concluded that "pension plans are kind of a thing of the past." In that, HP was merely following...