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...other diseases as well. "There is a good reason we don't have treatments for diseases like Parkinson's," says Melton. "That's because the only way science can study them is to wait until a patient appears in the office with symptoms. The cause could be long gone by then, and you're just seeing the end stages." No longer. Now the major steps in the disease process will be exposed, with each one a potential target for new drugs to treat what goes wrong. "This is a sea change in our thinking about developmental biology," says Dr. Arnold...
...bound by the character of K.K. Harouni, a distinguished landowner who becomes a sort of barometer for the state of the ruling class. In his prime, Harouni is a man of influence, commanding estates and legions of servants. At his death, the household is broken up, the house sold: "Gone, and they the servants would never find another berth like this one, the gravity of the house, the gentleness of the master, the vast damp rooms, the slow lugubrious pace, the order within disorder." That generational shift, the breakdown of the feudal system into something recognizably modern but no less...
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...vegetables or at the bakery. Fatemeh Rezai, 38, standing in front of four large file cabinets with detailed health information on each household in her district, says she is proud of the work she does, "especially after hearing our Health Minister say that life expectancy in Iran has gone up from 57 to 73 in just a few decades...
...born solipsists; we begin life thinking that our perceptions define reality. Gradually we learn perspective: that there's a difference between how we see ourselves and how others perceive us. Since the invention of recording media, nearly every child has gone through a ritual unsettling demonstration of the gap between ideal self and actual self: hearing what your voice sounds like on tape. Play a kid's voice back to him for the first time and his reaction will probably be, "That's not me. I know what I sound like...