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...torture. "Without my papers, there is no way I can get justice," says Li, his 45-year-old face etched with the wrinkles of a far older man. Now he is worried that irate local officials who are tired of him complaining about them in Beijing might try to harm him. So he's staying in the capital, determined to keep pushing for an inquiry. "I know it's no use, but what else...
Suddenly, inflammation has become one of the hottest areas of medical research. Hardly a week goes by without the publication of yet another study uncovering a new way that chronic inflammation does harm to the body. It destabilizes cholesterol deposits in the coronary arteries, leading to heart attacks and potentially even strokes. It chews up nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. It may even foster the proliferation of abnormal cells and facilitate their transformation into cancer. In other words, chronic inflammation may be the engine that drives many of the most feared illnesses of middle...
...develop the disorder later than those who weren't. Perhaps the immune system mistakenly saw the characteristic plaques and tangles that build up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients as damaged tissue that needed to be cleared out. If so, the ensuing inflammatory reaction was doing more harm than good. Blocking it with anti-inflammatories might limit, or at least delay, any damage to cognitive functions...
...neurotoxins. The Bush administration’s weakened regulations may save the power industry hundreds of millions of dollars—yet another instance of its characteristically lax laws with regard to big industry—but they won’t be able to address the real harm quickly enough. Without requiring across-the-board regulation, there will still be mercury build-up and concentrated areas of pollution; the substance will continue to taint our waters and affect our population...
...moment when popsters’ ideas of a good time seem dangerously limited to drunkenness (The Strokes), public exposure (Janet) and grevious bodily harm (Jack White), OK Go prefer to make audiences giggle. Their eponymous album, released in late 2002, isn’t particularly gripping—a series of sunny pop songs equally influenced by emo and the retro-chic of bands like The Apples in Stereo. But OK Go, like all bands worth their salt, come into their own when playing live...