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...range of animals, from rodents to roundworms. These gossamer strands of DNA -- known as homoeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes for short -- lay out the embryo from head to tail, controlling everything from the development of limbs and the wiring of the spinal cord to the patterning of the gut and urogenital tracts. "What's amazing," says University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Neil Shubin, "is that evolution of complex structures appears to be controlled by this same small set of genes...
Medicare turns 30next Sunday, and the Democrats are going to make sure Americans take note of that anniversary. Each day this week, party leaders announced today, concerned voters can expected a new, blistering attack on GOP plans to gut the system. Today's opening shot: "The Republican cuts would cause $1,000 additional cost to the average senior citizen" and his or her family, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people...
...when J.F.K. was shot or when Challenger exploded remembers precisely where he or she was when the news arrived. Posttraumatic stress disorder, which affects Vietnam vets like Bill Noonan, is another good example. While the intellectual memory of emotions is routed through the hippocampus, a different, gut-level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible clarity by abnormal activity in the amygdala. "It's been an eye opener to me that individuals we study who were traumatized 25 years ago still show abnormal brain function," says Dennis Charney, head of psychiatry at the VA hospital in West Haven...
...wanted to juxtapose worlds that you wouldn't expect to come together," say Colby Devitt, who conceived and directed the pro-duction. "It's been exciting to have a gut feeling and see it take on life and momentum...
...drifted through many styles, from the cold, synthesizer-laden Trans (1982) through the bland blues-bar rock of This Note's for You (1988) to the sublime country pop of Harvest Moon (1992). His songs are at once rawly personal and poetically empathetic. He never follows trends, only his gut. "I just play what I feel like playing," he says, "and every once in a while I'll wake up and feel like playing something else...