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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problems. The third affects the junction of nerve cells, where various neurochemicals work to relay signals from one nerve cell to another. It's not clear yet exactly how the genes increase Alzheimer's risk - in fact, most healthy people have some version of the three genes - but researchers hope that the growing pool of genetic factors will eventually help them develop more effective and better-targeted treatments for the disease. See the Top 10 Pictures of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009 | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...aptly named Hope Falls, West Virginia, “Bat Boy” could be seen as a critique of the hypocrisy inherent in “Christian charity” (obviously, they don’t want the strange man-bat creature to attend their special revival weekend) or as the painful journey to ignore one’s inner animal instincts and just fit in. Even more strangely, it could be seen as a story of love: the failed love of Dr. and Mrs. Parker or the bizarre romance that develops between Shelley and Edgar. The first...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Bat Boy" Sighting a Pleasantly Strange Event | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...meets fiction” of “Bat Boy: The Musical” manages to keep the wonder going even beyond the show’s incredibly tragic end. In the world of tabloid fantasy, love can be open to all, death is no longer a barrier to hope, and the optimism of the seemingly impossible can still ring out: Bat Boy lives...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Bat Boy" Sighting a Pleasantly Strange Event | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Writes Denis Overbye in The New York Times, “A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.” In other words, creating an amount of energy three to four times times the amount created during a nuclear fission reaction—a possibility realizable with the detonation...

Author: By Shaomin C. Chew | Title: The Fate of Science | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...hundred million to spare. But history's best golfer will undoubtedly seize the chance to repair his reputation the way he earned it in the first place. One Sunday next year, Woods will catch fire, tear past the competition and hoist another trophy. When that happens, let's hope fans remember that public prowess does not equal private virtue, and that we should reserve our adulation for those whom we know are actually deserving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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