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Becker takes the stage like a modern day Fred Flintstone in blue jeans, work-boots and a T-shirt which reveals a definite gut. The set resembles a half-prehistoric, half-modern bachelor pad, complete with stone slab chair and hamper full of dirty laundry...
...Wednesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance Director) Richard Sullivan testify that John Huang assured Gore's staff that this wasn't going to be a fundraiser," she said. "People tend to forget that if the nuns...
...from Leiden University in the Netherlands have for the first time isolated a gene that is linked to some types of migraines. The team, led by Dr. Michel Ferrari, studied 60 subjects from five families with a history of migraines. Inheriting one copy of the defective gene seems to hamper the ability of cells to use calcium molecules to communicate with one another. Ferrari stresses, however, that genetics is not destiny: "Certain patients will have a genetic predisposition but will develop migraine only when other, presumably environmental, factors are involved...
Still, the news that a 63-year-old California woman gave birth to a baby girl gave me pause. She will be pushing 80 when this child is denting the family car, filling the hamper and emptying the refrigerator. What's more, 63 is not the outer limit. What this birth shows is that by using donor eggs, a woman can carry a child well into her dotage, like the legendary Thurmond. Think about it: Mother Teresa could become a mother...
...kappa opioids favor females? Could estrogen, the female hormone, somehow enhance the drugs' effectiveness, or might the male hormone, testosterone, hamper it? Another possibility, Levine suggests, is that women's brains have more--or more responsive--kappa receptors, enabling the kappa opioids to block pain more effectively...